Steve Perlman unveils amazing new wireless tech

Steve says that this new wireless tech has sub-millisecond latency one to two miles away, a two millisecond latency up to 30 miles and possibly a reach of 250 miles, needs no cell towers, it isn’t based on current wireless tech, has cheap antennas and radios.

One of the really exciting trends to me in modern technology is how much more quickly infrastructure capabilities are expanding. I’m sure I’m using the wrong terminology when I talk about this stuff because it’s not really where my background is, but I usually hear people refer to the “the stack” when talking about the internet as a platform.

There are multiple layers, of course, and you can build on each one, and each new layer allows us to move up the stack one more and start building the higher abstraction. A lot of the exciting consumer innovations in the internet right now are based on programming in higher levels of the stack. Facebook is a social platform built on the internet. Zynga is a gaming platform built on Facebook (and, to be fair, other elements of the internet).

But there are huge opportunities still in changing the basics of the internet, like how we access it, and how wireless devices communicate.

Thirty miles? That’s a huge distance. That’s farther than a cell tower is able to reliably broadcast its signal to your phone. Imagine what we could build on that kind of communication technology.