Simcard in your car, microwave and in your dog's collar!

In less than a decade from now, as we had visualized a decade ago, controlling home microwave while driving back from work will be a practical reality. This could have been possible with the existing internet infrastructure viz. high speed cable/dsl and wifi. But what makes it more real now is the low cost of wireless endpoints aka cellphones; and the network infrastructure ready to support such proliferation. Imagine a sim card in each of the devices like home-sprinklers (environment control), cars (LBS) , or even in dog collars (gps location) feeding back information and acting on basic or complex commands. The business models are galore stemming essentially from 'logged-in' communities. Communities represented by mobile service providers like AT&T or Boingo, or social communities like facebook or linkedin or application communities like skype or ebay. What makes it more real this time around is sustainability; revenue generation for the 'service' provider.