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...online thanks to a wireless hub in the trunk, a silver dollar-size antenna mounted behind my head and the wi-fi card built into my computer (an X40 mininotebook from IBM). It's just like jumping online at Starbucks, and it lets me go wild multitasking--catching up on e-mail and otherwise staying productive while in transit. Rarely am I trapped at a coffee shop, concerned that my workday is slipping away, but the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway can kill an entire afternoon...
...PARKER: Hub-and-spoke networks are not going away. But after some painful consolidation, we will probably have three very big airlines. The country likely can't sustain six low-cost carriers either. If 75% of passengers now travel on the Big Six airlines, I think that will be about 50% within a few years, and the low-fare airline share will rise to take the other half...
...geekspeak, a car is just a hub that can connect with your cell phone, PDA or laptop--as long as the device includes wireless technology. Ford recently demonstrated a wi-fi-- enabled SUV that can wirelessly connect to your PC and allow you to transmit movies and MP3s to the car's entertainment system. Despite concerns about driver distraction, the satellite-radio service Sirius has plans to stream video to backseats in 2006 models, starting with cartoons and music videos. Eventually, cars may be networked so they can communicate with one another about roadside information, traffic updates and weather conditions...
...hub blogs.law.harvard.edu hosts the blogs of nearly 600 Harvard affiliates...
...city is where the hope is, together with the links to a global economy. Who would not want to be amid the bright lights of a hub? "There's no money on the farm," a young man from Danang province, Vietnam, told me last month, explaining why he was riding me around Saigon on the back of his motorbike to support the family he never saw. The girls in the local bars, like their counterparts in Manila or Shanghai, might have said the same thing: they would give up security, community and family if it led to a chance...