Chapter 13

Looking Beyond the Mobile Web to Ubiquitous Computing

… The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Steve Jobs

The Explosion of Mobile Devices, Wireless, and Cellular Communications

Delivering the keynote speech at an American Institute of Business event in Palm Springs in 2011, Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt provided some staggering predictions regarding mobile usage.

“Everything we've talked about and everything you're going to hear says, ‘do mobile,’” Schmidt declared. “We look at the charts internally and it's happening faster than all of our predictions. This is the future, and everybody will adapt.”

According to Schmidt, the CEO of one of the most revolutionary companies in the world, ...

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