【经济学人专题报道】正在来临的无线通讯革命
The coming wireless revolution

April 2007
From The Economist print edition

26页

Summary: The coming wireless revolution. But as mobile-phone technology matures, even more innovation is taking place in areas of wireless that link things only metres or millimetres apart. Wireless technology will become a part of objects in the next 50 years rather as electric motors appeared in everything from eggbeaters to elevators in the first half of the 20th century and computers colonised all kinds of machinery from cars to coffee machines in the second half. David Clark, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who helped develop the internet, believes that in 15 or 20 years' time the network will need to accommodate a trillion devices, most of them wireless. Wireless energy makes wireless devices look easy.

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