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Delivery Tomorrow's Car, Mobile Streaming are about Data, not Technology By Andy Marken "When I look at him in the rear-view mirror, I can tell he's always thinking about stu† in his head. I guess that's what geniuses do. But it don't look fun to be that smart." – Tony Lip, "Green Book," Dreamworks, 2018 When it comes to wireless data, psychologist Abraham Maslow was right in 1966 when he observed, "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." A few months ago we sat in on several 5G technology sessions at FMS (Flash Memory Summit) as executives from Qualcomm, Ericsson, Sprint and other firms extolled how 5G is going to not only give us faster wireless service but will change how people and IoT (Internet of Things) enabled devices communicate. Yes … connectivity/ communications are the nails, 5G is the hammer! We didn't think much about it until we attended Qualcomm's Wi-Fi 6 Day and were reminded there's more than one way to deliver data. After all, Qualcomm knows both sides of wireless communications since they lead the crowd developing/ selling chips for both. Heck, they might even know a little something about autonomous transportation since they have friends in high places. Wi-Fi has played a vital part in the total communications picture, since that's what you use when you're sitting in the coffee shop wasting time. It's the stuff you use on the plane to stream your interactive games and answer emails, delete spam so they don't clog your inbox. Yeah, it's the internet tool that literally and figuratively keeps people and things connected. It's important (necessary). It just isn't as sexy as a new/ expensive 5G smartphone.