These days, the most common term being thrown around by technology pundits is the idea of a wired world. Of course, there is a certain school of thought that would suggest that we may actually have all the wires that we could possibly stand, and then some.
Wireless communication is something that is infinitely familiar to most people.
Since the time Marconi first sent a wireless transmission sailing across the Atlantic, the idea of wireless communication has blossomed into inventions such as television, cell-phones, PDAs, radios, remote controls, and more. Of course, there is a certain school of thought that would suggest that we may actually have all the wires that we could possibly stand, and then some. The problem, such as it is, may not exactly be evident at first glance. After all, the fact that your TV remote control can't talk to your cell-phone hasn't stopped people from either making, or buying either, and it certainly isn't evident why anyone would want the two to communicate in the first place. In fact, it would be probably better to characterize things differently.