Wireless internetworking R and D: quo vadis or some curious thoughts on the future?

This paper gives some perspectives on likely trends for the wireless Internet. The treatment is an exploration of some technologies, and due to the nature of the presentation it has not been possible to go into any technical details. This is not a comprehensive prognosis, but it should serve as a starting point for discussion of what major research requirements we should be addressing. We end the analysis by pondering some issues concerning the wireless information society.