Order pizza from your mobile. Extra cheese, thin crust. Book a hotel, rent a car, pay your bills. Sing your kids a lullaby. All from your mobile. But now there鈥檚 a built-in gar gizmo that let鈥檚 your fleet manager know if you went through a stop sign. There a clip-on doodad that measures your heart rate while you鈥檙e jogging and then lets you read your detailed chart on a website. 聽

Wave goodbye to the wires that once propelled our lives. Nowadays, if it鈥檚 not wireless, it ain鈥檛 worth it.聽聽

What did we do to deserve this? We launched wireless to get us to talk to one other on our big, oversized, heavy mobile phones. That was cool. For nearly two decades, we鈥檝e been yacking non-stop and it鈥檚 been great.

But of late, for chipmakers, it鈥檚 not survival of the fittest 鈥?it鈥檚 survival of the wireless. Seems like those of us who make receiver chipsets for a living, might have to adopt a little M2M. That鈥檚 machine-to-machine and some say it will change the world. In a word, it鈥檚 hardcore wireless communications that does not require a live human in the mix.

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month, Qualcomm showcased a coffee machine that would turn on right from your tablet just cos the chip inside told it so. Global wireless stuff is linking computers, tablets and phones, but now it鈥檚 also connecting your home鈥檚 ceiling fans to vacuum cleaners to intercoms while you鈥檙e flying over the North Pole.

We鈥檙e going to miss the days when a phone was just a phone. Today, our mobile devices talk to us. They sound alarms, ping us to pick up the kids, direct us to the closest gas station open after midnight, and we can get the evening news 鈥?broadcast live in the back seat of our SUV. These things still require a little T-L-C and a real live finger to swipe a screen.

I鈥檓 not willing to give all that up - yet. 鈥淏ut hey, can ya speak up, cos my PC just turned on my washing machine, blender, and my DVD 鈥?oh, and there goes the dog.聽