[chihuahua]

The tone of the article sounds so breathlessly over-excited that it's bordering on self-parody.

The cell phone companies will regret their purchase of 3G spectrum! Those fools, they did not realize their 3G cell towers would soon be rendered obsolete, nay, ridiculous, by my mighty wireless router!

It's not consumers buying consumer electronics, no, it's "an authentic grassroots phenomenon."

[20after4]

It seems to me that, for the most part, it was warranted enthusiasm. Wi-Fi has lived up to most of the wildest predictions and probably achieved even greater adoption than anyone could have imagined back in the early days.

[chihuahua]

That's certainly true; Wi-Fi is a useful and almost indispensable product. I just don't think it's a revolution in which the virtuous consumers wrest control from the evil overloads of Big Spectrum.

I was using computers before Wi-Fi and eventually bought a Wi-Fi router for use at home, so it's not that I've never experienced world without Wi-Fi.

[dualogy]

> The tone of the article sounds so breathlessly over-excited that it's bordering on self-parody.

Welcome to every Wired article ever, certainly from its inception well into the mid-2000s at least.

Today it's at best amusing, but those were times just 1-1.5 generations ago when that was truly, genuinely generally enjoyed (by techies & youngsters) as neither Tired nor Expired but (Hot)Wired, and as a needed/welcome breath of air in an ocean of seemingly-immutable last-century whiffs & echoes =)