It was interesting how I was thinking about some technology on Monday and I heard the same idea at the talk I went to yesterday.

I was thinking about mobile internet connectivity. There is obviously a lot of growth in that area. I am not sure how people use that connectivity, but I have an idea of how I would and how I observe people using it.

Mobile users seem to use it for reference. Like looking up maps and directions, finding stores, or getting contact information. Essntially it is information you need when you are on the move, a subset of information you access when at home. But as devices and services evolve, that subset will grow.

Right now people may have movies or music on their mobile, handheld computers, but those files were likely downloaded through a home connection and transferred from a desktop or laptop computer.

Imagine the connectivity savings for distributing files through a broadcast medium. That is, some content which  gets released at a certain time, instead of downloading it through a wireless network connection, your device would just tune into the data-radio-station at broadcast time and get the digital file that way.

I saw Vinton Cerf talk at Waterloo yesterday and he described the potential for such an application simlar to the way I had thought about it.