Linked by JoanneRodgers on Thu 15th May 2008 23:02 UTC
In a June 2003 Wired Magazine interview, Martha Stewart said, "Bill Gates' house, for example, is totally out of date now. He built it right before wireless happened. The big tunnels for all his wires - he doesn't need any of that stuff anymore." The article wasn't about networking, or even technology, but I was struck by that statement because it was echoed by several people when I was explaining that I was running many thousands of feet of cable in OSNews' "house of the future." "Is all that cable really necessary now that there's wireless everything?" people said. As much as I respect Martha Stewart's business and design acumen, neither she, nor those people who talked to me, know what they're talking about. When it comes to networking, there's no substitute for a wire, when a wire's available. -- This is the latest entry in our 2008 Article Contest. 
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At least that is the impression that I get. It's getting harder and harder to find mice and keyboards that are wired.
I know people that refuse to buy wired keyboards, and would rather replace the batteries then have the thought that a wire might be connecting it to the computer. Many of these people never move the keyboard or the computer.
Same with video game consoles. People look at me strange when they see I went out and bought a wired controller instead of dealing with batteries
Ive also seen people get a wireless router and a wireless network card in order to connect a computer that is 2 feet from the router
I find it mind boggling at times, I can't tell if people are deeply afraid of them or if its some kind of fetish