As technology marches forward, cell phone users expect more and more functionality from their phones. While this functionality has been provided in many ways by Bluetooth and wireless technology, there is still a long way to go before users realize the level of ease-of-use and that is displayed in science fiction episodes in movies such as Star Trek, Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey. While these are all good indications of the eventual level of technology that one day it might be available to cell phone users, it is a long way from reality. But, plans are in the works to allow the cell phone and wireless technologies, including Bluetooth and other wireless formats to work independently of each other as well as alongside each other to provide seamless communications over vast distances, utilizing Bluetooth technology as well as satellite and existing wireless formats. In this way, users will be able to have nonstop uninterrupted conversations and transmissions from one point to another, no matter where on earth they originated and where on earth they are traveling to. This concept of nonstop communications and never ending signal has been pioneered by many in the wireless industry over the years.

The biggest caveat and hurdle to the adoption of a worldwide wireless network, is the fact that many cell phones and many frequencies operate on different standards, and some frequencies are simply unavailable for cell phone use. Once the worldwide adoption of a wireless network exists it is very likely that life as mankind knows it will change significantly. Long distance rates will naturally bottom out as more and more users look to the Internet and its free communications protocols to save money overall. Using the Internet to communicate around the world is already a common practice, but using it for the purpose of voice transmission has yet to be fully implemented. Once the concept of voice transmission over the wireless Internet catches on around the world, it is very likely that traditional hardwired ground lines and other wired infrastructure will be left by the wayside.

This worldwide communication network, wireless in nature, will lead the world one step closer to the utopian lifestyle that is so often perpetrated in science fiction works such as Star Trek and the novels of Jules Verne. In these fictional utopian societies, instantaneous communications allows for virtual world wide perfection in all things. As information and ideas are shared at light speeds, the need to withhold information from others becomes moot, as individuals can learn from data that is distributed worldwide in mere seconds.

While the concept behind virtual instantaneous worldwide transmissions I’d have been many many decades in the making, we are now only a few years from seeing the worldwide implementation of instantaneous communications. It is very likely that this is exactly what type of communications network early science fiction authors had in mind when they described devices such as the video phone and Dick Tracy’s ubiquitous two-way wrist radio and television.