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The
future of technology - Everything will be digital…
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In the digital world there are no movies or music or magazines
but just 1s & 0s termed as bits. The ability to move these
bits is called BANDWIDTH. Broadband is the ability to
move lots of bits per second. A computer doesn't necessarily
consume bits in a continuous fashion like water. In the
future the broadband will 
be more ASYNCHRONOUS. For example, interleaving people's
conversation, packetizing them, so that many people share
the same channel without being aware that they are. In
the larger sense we can at our convenience receive & send
data. Like watching your favorite Bay-Watch TV programme
at a time you want to watch and not at 10 pm on Star World.
BEING Wireless
Plugs are in the past and the future consumption of bits
will be very conversational & bursty. The batteries will
be less power hungry and there will be improved use of
radio frequencies (RF). Ultimately all long distance traffic
will be fiber optic and all short distance traffic will
be RF. Everything electronic will talk to other electronic
appliances using RF and computers will come out of the
box and our grandchildren will look back at our PC's as
quaint artifacts, as common tomorrow as an
ice tray today.
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a global de facto standard for wireless connectivity.
Based on a
low-cost, short-range radio link, it cuts the cords that
used to tie up digital devices. BlueTooth technology was
conceived in 1998 when the leaders in mobile telephones,
laptop computing & signal processing technologies viz.,
Ericsson, Nokia, IBM, Toshiba and Intel grouped to form
Special Interest Group (SIG).
When two Bluetooth equipped devices come within ten metres
range of each other, they can establish a connection together.
And because Bluetooth utilizes a radio-based link, it
doesn't require a line-of-sight connection in order to
communicate. Your laptop could send information to a printer
in the next room, or your microwave could send a message
to your mobile phone telling you that your meal is ready.
In the future, Bluetooth is likely to be standard in tens
of millions of mobile phones, PCs, laptops and a whole
range of other electronic devices. As a result, the market
is going to demand new innovative applications, value-added
services, end-to-end solutions and much more. The possibilities
opened up really are limitless, and because the radio
frequency used is globally available.
Imagine some of these everyday examples: you enter a train
and your fare is automatically paid by your mobile phone.
Or you get an automatic text message notifying that your
kids are safely back from school. Or while waiting at
the airport lounge, you get some interesting duty-free
offers directly to your mobile phone. You could play multiplayer
games with your friends, or write e-mails on your laptop
on the 'plane, then when you land and switch on your handset,
the messages can be automatically sent by your phone.
Bluetooth will also allow you to surf the Web with your
laptop while your phone is in your bag. Together with
other industry initiatives, such as WAP (Wireless Application
Protocol) and Symbian, Bluetooth will have tremendous
effects on everyday life in the near future.
Click here for a FLASH PRESENTATION of what
Bluetooth can do for you. Please note that you need
to have a Flash player to play this.
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