In the battle of low-speed wireless offerings, Bluetooth is ready to put the bite on the competition.
P redicting the future in print is a risky activity.
In some cases, predictions are obviously silly at the time when they're made. It's hard to imagine who would pay the millions of dollars any such device would surely cost, were it to be intelligent enough to be useful. However, one prediction that I feel happy to make, and in all fairness it's not much of a prediction as the route map is pretty much in place now, is that wireless networking will be a huge part of the networking scene in the next few years. Despite the relative simplicity of installing Cat 5 cabling in small businesses and home offices, capable of carrying data at 100Mbps, there's still considerable resistance to hard wiring. As more businesses employ staff on an ad hoc basis, or have visiting staff from other locations who need to make connections to the network, the whole hard-wired network starts to look less flexible than what the company really needs.