Mr. PAUL SAFFO (Institute for the Future): This is a money machine for Google.

NPR: San Francisco Weighs Wi-Fi Plans

Paul Saffo, a futurologist and one of the world's most enthusiastic technophiles, also looks at the downside.

ECONOMIST: What sort of revolution?

The proper metaphor for somebody who carries portable but unwieldy and cumbersome infrastructure is that of an astronaut rather than a nomad, says Paul Saffo, a trend-watcher in Silicon Valley.

ECONOMIST: Nomads at last

"My nightmare fear is some congressman is going to seize on this and they're going to pass some laws, " says Paul Saffo, director of the Institute of the Future in Menlo Park, Calif.

CNN: Net crime does pay for cops

"We build our new technology edifices on the rubble of older technology, " says Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley technology forecaster who relishes telling the story of Disney's ill-fated house of the future and other now neglected technologies.

FORBES: Ghosts Of Technologies Past