You've seen the commercials. Soon you'll be doing business on the beach, complete with audioconferencing and instantaneous access to the latest sales data from the office. What this vision of a wireless future disregards, though, is that high-end portable devices have a voracious need for power because each application requires its own silicon chip. Maybe wireless computing has a future, but it's only going to last as long as your batteries do.

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