Boston Wi-Fi Follow-up

Before we forget, there are a couple of additional
strands to the emerging tapestry of Citywide
Wi-fi in Boston. First, City
Councilor John Tobin and WAG are
sponsoring a Wi-Fi summit next month at the Science Museum. As far as
we know it is open to all but we have not been able to find
a Summit Web Page yet, just mentions in blogs and press releases.

BostonWAG is one of several local organizations involved in a special
task force formed to plan the WiFi Summit, which will be held on Thursday,
May 19 at the Museum of Science, Boston. The task force is now seeking
input from community residents on how they think wireless technology
could be used to make Boston a more attractive place to live, work, go
to school and conduct business. Representatives of local community groups,
grassroots organizations, and non-profit agencies are invited to participate
in the forum.

Also, and who knows whether this is all part of a subtle
public opinion campaign to influence public opinion in favor of the emerging
everywherenet, yesterday’s Boston
Globe had a looong article titled, "The
Year of Living Wirelessly":

Hotels, airports, stadiums, municipal buildings, hospitals, libraries,
planes, trains – our entire environment is being "unwired." Wi-Fi
is connecting whole neighborhoods and public parks, like New York City’s
Bryant Park, creating so-called hotzones and hotcities. The Boston
Foundation, a charitable group, has given the Museum
of Science $25,000
to study
unwiring swaths of the city, particularly parks and open spaces. Next
month, civic and technology leaders plan to meet at a Wireless Boston
summit to discuss the idea.

This is happening, folks. For better or worse, happening people will
soon be online, all the time, everywhere. At least in Boston’s parks
and open spaces.

from the
Boston Globe