Having been an engineer in 1996. Really nothing wasn't foreseen by anyone with a feel for how things were going.
In 1996 a friend was dating an engineer with an electric car. She'd thrown a bunch of time and money into it. Had a range of about 80-90 miles and wasn't slow at all.
Around then there was skunks works a couple of buildings away from me. On the spectrum analyzer I could see spread spectrum signals showing up at 900 and 2.4GHZ.
In 1996 a friend was dating an engineer with an electric car. She'd thrown a bunch of time and money into it. Had a range of about 80-90 miles and wasn't slow at all.
Around then there was skunks works a couple of buildings away from me. On the spectrum analyzer I could see spread spectrum signals showing up at 900 and 2.4GHZ.
Edit: Stay classy HN.