CCS (Wireless Networks Research)

Wireless networks are becoming more and more popular everyday. They are being used in many places such as libraries, universities, food restaurants and even in some sity centres. People can take along their laptop or any other device with a wireless network card and connect to the Internet. Macdonalds offer a free service for hand-held games consoles such as the Nintendo DS for customers to play multiplayer games over the Internet whilst they eat. The Government are trying to make the Internet accessible to everybody so they are trying to introduce schemes where people can bring along their devices and connect to the Internet from the City centres. Many reviews of the future of this technology believe that it will become so widespread that soon, people will be able to access the Internet from just about anywhere without the use of wires. A wireless network uses radio waves, just as cell phones and televisions do.

** Piccadilly Square in London, Times Square in New York and Shinjuku in Tokyo all have large public screens that are being used for commercial purposes. Imagine a futuristic setting where public interactive screens have developed into accepted forms of communication and expression between citizens: local broadcasting stations can become the norm. People will be able to use their portable high-speed data processor and interact with large public digital screens and display there own media content – text, pictures, sound and video.

People will be able to express their artistic intent, share opinions and participate in public opinion polls. Like the internet, the virtual space of data share and exchange created out of wireless telecommunication technologies can offer its users a platform for communication and community formation, this time in real urban space.**