History of the Internet and its flexible future

This article relates the history of wireless communications to the history of the Internet. The early work on packet switching is traced,and then a brief description of the critical events in the growth of the Internet is provided. Then, a vision of where the Internet is heading is presented, with a locus on where user participation, flexible applications and services, and innovation are appealing. A network with extreme mobility, ubiquity, personalization, adaptivity, video addiction, and surprising applications, as yet unimagined is foreseen.