I am sitting in our van in the southernmost rest area on I-29 in Iowa. On-line. Blogging.
Sometime in the last year Iowa started providing free wireless internet in all their rest areas on I-29. We noticed this in our travels to Arkansas and back for Thanksgiving and Xmas, but never actually tried it. Well, I had to rectify that as I drive south yet again to spend a few more days with my folks before classes start next week. (This is Dad’s last full week of radiation – only six more treatments to go!)
The connection is a bit slow, but it certainly works. I think they’re running some sort of wireless to the rest area to support their traveller info kiosk, and then decided to go ahead and distribute that bandwidth out to us. Pretty cool, and another sign of how ubiquitous network connectivity is becoming. Combine that with ubiquitous computing (having computing devices embedded in things like your clothes and other everyday objects), and there are a lot of pretty amazing things that can happen (for good and bad).
Now I drive more… :-)
