Wi-Fi or...The bigger picture...

Reading an article this morning on wireless internet and how far it has come in the past few years with internet providers offering Wi-Max. Wi-fi is a basic at home wireless internet set up that has worked well for many people and will still in the future. But now they are introducing Wi-Max, a wireless internet service that will work for up to 30 miles. Wi-fi works at 150 ft indoors and 300 ft max outdoors. So now they're talking from going from feet to miles. What is something like that was introduced in Emmetsburg or even Palo Alto county. What would it be like when anyone with a laptop has the ability to go anywhere in the county and has internet service. Grant it, it is much more expensive the possibilities of having web access anywhere would be huge. What would we do with it? Well, anything you would like to. Listen to online radio, search Facebook, Twitter, and even MySpace, search Google or MSN, even watch videos across YouTube. All with no wireless and you could even be sitting in the park in the middle of the country side. But how would we pay for it? That is the question that still stands. Maybe something in the future we need to look at. One year from now, two, more? Guess we'll just wait and see.