Mercury State

Backseat Blogger

Currently, I am blogging from the backseat while heading over the Grapevine. It’s nice to finally have a technology set-up that allows me to be truly mobile. We have been on laptops, instead of desktop computers, for years; but it is only recently that the hardware, technology and internet has allowed for an easy mobile workstation. Processors that are beefy enough to run applications like Photoshop, no longer require 15-pound, battery-eating laptops.

Technology is about to take another jump forward that will allow mobile computing to even easier and more affordable. The fact that something like a netbook can purchased for as little as $300 is simply amazing – that is less than the cost of a first-generation iPhone. Free wifi and mobile broadband are going to be the only barriers left to joining the mobile workforce.

I’m hoping that AT&T will wise up and have a plan available for sharing the iPhone’s internet connection. Tethering – or mobile phones as modems – will allow for a whole new level of freedom. This will allow people to break free of coffee shops, airports and other common wifi hotspots. Bars just might become the new mobile office.
With light-weight, power computers and wireless broadband, the missing part of mobile will most likely be power. If something like solar-power can become more affordable, as well as mobile, there will be little reason to not work from remote location that would typically be reserved for camping.

Working remotely from the office is pretty awesome; not nearly as awesome as not needing to work, but it is a close second. Those of us that are already taking advantage with the mobile technology available need to help guide the industry by explaining what we need.

Posted by Merc at 5:00 PM