PERSONAL INFORMATION-SERVICE (PIS) - AN APPLICATION OF WIDE-BAND COMMUNICATIONS, 2012-AD

With the affluence that comes with economic developments and technolog ical advances, citizens around the world will demand personalized, on- demand, high-quality information services, which I will call personal information service (PIS). I foresee that by 2012 A.D., a variety of c ommunication services, and in particular PIS, will be much more widely available around the world. To make such services available to the ma sses, a number of challenges have to be overcome. In this paper, I wil l address the challenges. I believe that by working together, we can o btain solutions by 2012 A.D.