ABSTRACT
Reading the title of this chapter, the reader would think that after getting to the end of writing this book, in which everything was based on facts, the writer wanted to find out if he is capable of writing science fiction. This chapter is not an escapade into science fiction, but the realization that we are already living in the beginning of the “wireless age.”Being in the center of major cities in the world, especially in the USA and in Europe, one sees no wires, they are all underground. Getting out of the center to the suburbs, the wires appear overhead. They mostly carry electricity and some are for telephone or cables for TV/Internet, except the new fiber optic cables, which, being more fragile, are perhaps underground. How one can even think that we are already living in the beginning of the “wireless age” when in some places one sees the sky through a large web of wires?We can begin the story of the wireless environment soon after we started to manufacture PV modules at Solarex, when I received a telephone call from the West Coast and the person on the phone told me that he had a small electric store and would
like to buy a few of our largest (at that time it was a 30 Wp) PV modules. I quoted him a price, which at that time was quite high. He said it was OK. I also told him that we needed the payment in advance as we did not know him. He said that was no problem and that he was going to transfer the money. The money arrived, we shipped the few modules. About a week later, he called again and ordered about twice as many as he ordered before. Same routine: Money arrived and we shipped. When that happened two more times with increasing number of modules being ordered, I asked him what was he doing with those modules?
