We need to see how wireless technology is deployed before making grandiose judgments. The Internet is just a platform the way the PC was a platform, and the Mac was a platform. The Net is the next platform, but I don't think it's the last platform. I was optimistic about the grand promise that the Internet would create a multiplicity of communities, until about a year ago. The Internet as it is today lacks the necessary bandwidth to give you a real community.
Communities are as much about smell and texture and touch as they are about intellectual content.
The Net is not going to be a substitute for the family and the close-in community. We're talking Yellow Pages here. People were looking for the next big thing beyond personal computers, and the Web took off. It met some key minimum standard and then became a standard that is going to rival the personal computer. But it's not the last one.