Mind you the 'rhetoric' isn't quite as good as this from another company at the same stage of development a few years ago.
The Chairman speaking at a ASM
By way of background I will read to you a couple of paragraphs from a
comprehensive article in the April 28th issue of the Economist this year
entitled "When everything connects" an article I thoroughly recommend.
The opening paragraphs read;
"The wireless was once a big wood-panelled machine glowing faintly in the corner of the living room. Today's wireless device is the sleek mobile phone nestling in your pocket. In coming years wireless will vanish from view, as communications chips are embedded in a host of everyday objects. Such chips, and networks that link then together, could yet prove to be the most potent wireless of them all.
Just as microprocessors have been built into everything in the past decades, so wireless communications will become part of objects big or small. The possibilities are legion. Gizmos and gadgets will talk to other devices-and be serviced and upgraded from afar. Sensors on buildings and bridges will run them efficiently and ensure that they are safe. Wireless systems on farmland will measure temperature and humidity and control irrigation systems. Tags will certify the origins and distribution of food and medicines. Tiny chips on or in people's bodies will send vital signs to clinics to help keep them healthy."
The closing paragraph reads;
"What is different about new wireless communications is that people will barely notice them. Machines will talk to machines without human intervention. But humans will nevertheless be laying the foundation of a new infrastructure which, like the electrical power grid, will become a platform for subsequent innovation. There is no saying how it will be used other than that it will surprise us."
This "wirelessness" is what gives your Directors considerable confidence about the opportunities for growth that our technologies and energies can harvest for the future. And as the economist points out many of the applications that will use our products are as yet unknown. Our belief is that our creations based on quartz will remain at the centre of all this growth and change.
And they went on to zillions of little gizmos