GoogleNet

You guys have probably heard of the Google WiFi network being set up in San Francisco? Well there has been quite a bit of chatter about a global wireless network perhaps owned in part or in whole by Google.

They've just hooked up with NASA, and are supposedly sponsoring the $100 dollar laptops developed by MIT. If they were to put those laptops in the hands of people in less well-off countries, plus develop a type of "internet-everywhere," imagine the software applications possible.

I'm sure you've all had that feeling in the back of your heads that eventually, everyone will be connected at all times. It might not even be possible at the current time, but just imagine if it were possible? It is estimated that around 10% of people on the planet have access to the internet. Thats only around 650 million of the 6.5ish billion people. What if 1.3 billion were online? Or more?

If you think more locally, think internet access in your car. Kind of a cheesy example, but listening to an online radio station from Turkey while oh your way to Calgary from Regina? Or what about a long distance phone call using VOIP while on the same trip?

Add an entry to your blog from on top of a mountain during your holidays?

Could be interesting.