What if Google wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user’s precise location? The gatekeeper of the world’s information could become one of the globe’s biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one fell swoop. Sounds crazy, but how might Google go about it?

Good speculation. I long for the day when we get rid of all these ridiculous wires. Read the article. (via mefi, where there are some good comments and more links.) There’s an faq accessible at wifi.google.com/faq … it mentions

The program can currently be downloaded at certain Google WiFi locations in the San Francisco Bay Area

so people are speculating this is where initial tests will start.