Internet actualy is television, maybe

EV suggested blogging about this, and I'm totally doing it. So a group of six huge technology companies have delivered a device to the FCC that will be able to receive Internet access through unused television signals. A look of the six companies gives a hint at the kind of change a product like that could bring: Google, Microsoft, Dell, H-P, Intel, and Philips. Beaming the Internet as television signals would totally change how wireless connected devices work. It definitely wouldn't limit it to computers, broadband could be added to lots of smaller devices, all without hard wiring. As one of the FCC commissioners says in the Post article, Wi-Fi would be taken to the "next level". I think that's another way for saying, "BLOWING YOUR MIND"

What does this have to do with the Airbus A380 landing in the US for the first time at LAX and JFK Monday morning? As the LA Times :

"It's not going to be a revolution; it's going to be an evolution," said Bob van der Linden, chairman of the aeronautics division at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. "You and I, and everybody else who flies, will determine whether this airplane is a hit or a flop."

To be sure, the A380, which is about 30% larger than Boeing's 747, is considered by many to be an engineering marvel. But it doesn't represent change on the scale its older cousin did. When the 747 came into service in the early 1970s, it was 2 1/2 times larger than the airplane it replaced.

The device the FCC will start testing could be the Internet's 747, forever changing individuals connection and access to the larger, mediated world. It will become TV.