If you watch today's students work with technology, you'll notice they use high-tech tools transparently: they've never known a phone that was not cordless, life without cel phones is equally alien to them. To be able to carry 6000 songs in your iPod is no big deal. These students are living the future: a time when we will be able to view any movie, any TV show, any news program at any time, anywhere. Further, the nature of information itself is changing from one of edited enyclopedia,  newspapers and books to the information "wild west" of cyberspace. MacWorld is where these groundbreaking ideas are presented for the first time. What we saw was the convergence of portable hand held devices such as phones with computers, TV and live connection to the internet. We spoke with those developing the first hand held video iPod, soon to be wireless. We will soon see handheld videophones as well, all with wireless internet access. To the world these students will grow up in, this sort of access to tools will be transparent, but so will be their ability to be critical thinkers, sorting out useful and accurate resources from the chaff.
Our students spoke on the key element to this convergence: wireless technology. How best to make it safe and secure? If we are to use this technology effortlessly, it should be easy and safe. The lessons learned in this project will become key concepts in the future of technology.