March 2006
Beginner
272 pages
5h 48m
English
Thesis 56The necessary network infrastructure does not exist.
Whether they themselves are infrastructural or mobile in nature, all of the visions of everyware we've considered in this book depend vitally on near-universal broadband network access.
And although it frequently seems that each day's newspaper brings word of another large-scale Internet access initiative—from Philadelphia's effort to provide a blanket of free municipal Wi-Fi to Google's similar endeavor on behalf of San Francisco—the network infrastructure so necessary to these visions simply does not exist yet in most places.
Even in the United States, broadband penetration is significantly ...
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