Prediction of the Winning Technology for Mobile Internet Access : 3G/4G vs. WiFi(<Special Issue>Smart Mobile Innovation)

抄録

There are currently two major technologies for mobile Internet access, 3G/4G, which is based on the cellular network, and WiFi, which is based on wireless lan. To predict the winning technology for mobile Internet access in the near future, a radically new approach is adopted It uses what is called "big data" technology. Specifically, a text mining technique was applied to discover the underlying bias towards one of the two technologies in the English Wikipedia. The bias will be regarded as a collective intelligence of Wikipedia, providing an answer for the prediction. The result of the programming experiment turned out that the English Wikipedia didn't show any bias towards one of the two technologies, i.e. it was neutral between the two. Three different explationations are possible for this rather unexpected result which was originally expected to be 3G/4G-bias by the author.