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Article: Ubiquitous Commerce.(use of wireless communication devices)(Brief Article)
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- Chief Executive (U.S.)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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The transformation from the industrial to the digital economy is complex as we try to figure out what's happening and what top executives should take out of it. Technology has a tendency in the early stages to slow on a performance curve, and then it becomes very steep. We're on one of those S-curves with the Internet.
We're also at the bottom of a new curve, affected by two technological trends. One is broadband, where instead of sending one signal through a traditional wire, you simultaneously send multiple signals, hundreds of times faster. Broadband networks can eliminate the Internet bottlenecks that prevent rapid content distribution.
The other new ...