Wireless Traffic

Wireless traffic is a powerful thing. Just like the Nielsen’s and television, it's important for website operators to know who is coming in who is going. So much in the same manner, wireless traffic is their fledgling attempts at figuring, labeling, and categorizing the people who are on the network.

Knowing wireless traffic helps attract advertisers, makes a website more viable in a search engine search, and also draws people to the website (which was the point of the website in the first place, I always thought!) So is now without the least bit of irony that these wireless traffic signals go up. In the intersection of life, we are all somewhere on that road. Some of us are just started the game some of us are more advanced in the road some of us are broken down along side of the road waiting for someone to help pick us up; we're all though participants in one way or another. Knowing the traffic on the wireless networks is all the same thing.

It's one of the really cool things about what the 21st century; but you can really tell who has been where, doing what, and when and for how long. It's pretty amazing. Although probably not any more amazing than the Nielsen’s; it's just something like online back-and-forth you think is something so personal. I remember typing my first e-mails all those years ago and pressing send in sin unto the oblivion and wondering if they would ever reach anyone. But now, today, are all connected instantaneously, they all know where we've been, and they all can tell where they're going; it’s remarkable.

But in the stop and go traffic jam that is our life is time to ponder for a moment what having wireless traffic recording will actually mean for society as a whole. Probably not much. But, it will be another way for them to tell us what we already know. And isn't that what computers are all about? Is not what Orwell was always afraid of? The big mother brain, knowing what we all are just discovering before we know it?

It's something to consider.

So as we race toward the inevitable tomorrow that will come regardless, we'd all like to know more than we do. It's with this desire that we face this new tomorrow and come smack up against the one thing we never thought we'd have to deal with; ourselves.