Google Wireless

Google announced over xmas it will create a totally open, neutral network that anyone can use with any compatible wireless device. This changes things big time. First, the 700mhz spectrum allows for very high bandwidth, at least 100mb/s. Secondly, it has long range, at least 30 miles. Combine this with Google's continuing acquisition of "dark fiber" they have the ability to offer nationwide, high-bandwidth, wireless access to anyone with any conceivable device. Add to this new ubiquitous, wireless reality with movements like Open Social OpenID, and within the next decade, we will no longer need telephone numbers, email addresses, and seperate webspace identities (facebook, myspace, etc.). You essentially are who you say you are wherever you go as you intereact across the digital landscape. As you interact with people and networks through your user-defined openID they in turn do the same with you. If someone wants to contact you, rather than call using a telephone number they simply contact you from their contact list. This "contact" could be voice, visual, text, multimedia, file exchange, data exchange, fax, document, anything.