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Here's the convergence I'm watching: wireless networking, mobile computing devices, and digital identity.
I haven't said anything about digital identity, despite the numerous conversations on this topic in other blogs. (Here for instance.) The basic idea is that internet commerce is being held back because we lack strong digital identities on the web. In other words, there is no way for people on one side of a transaction to be sure who is on the other side.
I've been uninterested in this discussion mainly because I don't care that much about internet commerce. But with the rise of wireless networks I'm starting to see how important this issue will be. And not just for commerce.
"An experiment is under way in Paris that aims to turn the city into one huge Wi-Fi hot spot, making it what could be the first large wireless city in the world."
Hi Carol. Thanks for lunch.
An edited extracted from Thomas Pynchon's introduction to the new Plume (Penguin US) edition of George Orwell's 1984.