Wi-fi and the future of wireless http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0105/p13s02-wmgn.htm By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor PM
erica is getting "unplugged" faster than an MTV musician as the revolution in wireless communication picks up speed. What started a century ago with Marconi's radio and became the now ubiquitous cellphone is now taking shape around a two-way radio technology called wi-fi (short for "wireless fidelity"). It promises to unplug more communications devices by making the Internet available just about everywhere and letting people talk to each other more easily than ever before.