WWWW :: Wireless World Wibe Web

So every one, including your grandmother knows what WWW stands for right ?  Of course you do, it's the world wide web, the internet.. that series of tubes data packets use as their information highway...  Well, world wide web isn't really all that accurate of a name is it?. Its really the WWWITIAWT .. Aww cmon.. its the "world wide web if there is a wire there". Gee, even grandma knew that one.

Whats that? Did I hear someone say "But what about my wireless laptop and router Mr Mr Smarty Pants?" .. um , gee, let's see. Your wireless router is connected to.. hrm, lemme guess.. Oh I know! A wire !  No, for the WW to mean truly world wide, there can be no strings attached, or wires as the case may be.

So, what? Back to smoke signals and carrier pigeons? No, not yet anyway. If the uber geeky gear heads can just overcome a couple more hurdles, a truly wireless world wide web (dibs on coining the term WWWW) may just be another 8 to 10 years away. The internet would be a true world wide resource, like the air that you breath and the water that you drink.

Ok sorry, about that delusional episode. It's just that we are all so lucky to live in a time where such leaps and bounds in technology are even possible.  Back to how. Well, I think the most feasible way is to have another piece of hardware act as a relay for your laptop. The technology required to make a satellite capable transmitter compact enough is too far off to actually put it in the lap top, for at least another 20 years or so.

So, your laptop and Hoop router could communicate using pretty much current methods, just like your laptop talks to your plain old wireless router today. The difference though is what happens next. Instead of the Hoop router talking to your ISPs gateway server, its DNS server, its border router, and every router in between the server you are requesting data from,  the data is simply relayed to one of the satellites covering your portion of the globe, and then relayed down to another Hoop router, then to  the server you are requesting data from. If the desired data comes from the other side of the globe, 2 more satalites are involved, but no matter how remote you are, you would never be more than 6 or 7 hops away from the remote server.

What about the DNS, caching proxy servers and all the other little behind the scenes things? Well, with the availability of such high speeds at such low cost, caching proxy servers will like be like the Dodo of the internet era (sorry Akamai) With RAM getting more and more.. well big and cheap, its completely feasible to move the whole DNS system onto a group of satellites.

Jumping that final hurdle of how to cheaply tranmit to a satelite may already be here, but it just isnt afforable yet. Possibly your've heard of quantum entanglement ? (certianly you read some of my prior artciles? No?  shame on you!) Well without reiterating too much, quantum entanglement is a way to transmit high speed data, it should be safe, and it could be compact and affordable, oh and "high speed" is a bit misleading.. try light speed, or percievebly instaneous!.. Yeah, thats sweet isn't it? And just think, you will likely live to see it. Possibly even Grandma.