Fiber to the Home or Wireless Everywhere? Which is Better?
Although fiber to the home will certainly change how we entertain/educate/communicate with the world, I believe that wireless access to everyone, everywhere with small computers will have a greater impact than just high-speed to the home. Here is why?
- most questions I have about things come about when I am not at home (I have FIOS at my house and it is sufficient to do what I need it to do)
- yesterday, my family was at Darien Lake and my daughter was asking me about why these girls were wearing head scarfs – which I later found out to be hijabs (I think..and I hope I am right) Imagine if we could have looked that up while waiting 2o minutes in line.
- another example – My family was over a friend’s house the other night and we were looking out at the stars. We did not exactly what we were looking at – but if we had a small computer device – we could have went to – this web site – to view our night sky.
- and lastly, when we went over to Canada and there were words written in French, I can see our small device looking up those words and helping us understand what we were reading.
Our society will dramatically change when we access to information can be achieved under Niagara Falls, at the Statue of Liberty, at the Great Wall, and on the streets of Iraq.
Google may be on the way to helping this mission – with the new Gphone.
I am an Educational Computing Strategist (ECS). I figure out ways to IMPROVE education with technology. 
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August 7th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
I don’t have FIOS yet. It might take a while for that to show up in Cattaraugus County. I do have wireless in the house and last weekend in Philadelphia in one of the worst sections of the city there were two free wireless access points. More 802.11x devices like IPhones might overwhelm this wireless infrastructure, but that is another discussion.