If you could rename any technology, which one would you rename and how?
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Blue tooth - that just makes no sense. I know what it is and how it came to be, but really that was the best they could come up with? I would have called it SPAN (Secure Personal Area Network) From Wikipedia: Bluetooth was named after a tenth-century king, Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark and Norway. Bluetooth is an anglicized version of Harald Blaatand,[30] who was known for his unification of previously warring tribes from Denmark (including now Swedish Scania, where the Bluetooth technology was invented), and Norway. Bluetooth likewise was intended to unify different technologies, such as personal computers and mobile phones.[31][32] The name may have been inspired less by the historical Harald than the loose interpretation of him in The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson, a Swedish Viking-inspired novel. The Bluetooth logo merges the Germanic runes analogous to the modern Latin letters H and B: (for Harald Bluetooth) (Hagall) and (Berkanan) merged together, forming a bind rune.
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I just saw the GreenInRichmond's answer. Never imagined so much of thinking and thought went into the naming of the bluetooth technology. I have a bluetooth enabled mobile and a computer. But I must wait for my son's next visit home to learn how to use it!
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