You're demanding conflicting things in the article. Fast connection time conflicts with security, long range with low power. You can already get near-instant c

You're demanding conflicting things in the article. Fast connection time conflicts with security, long range with low power. You can already get near-instant connectivity with nothing more than raw Wi-Fi frames. What you won't get are datagram delivery, guaranteed delivery, TCP streams and on up the OSI stack. What's happening right now is vendors figuring out the bare minimum needed for a product category and then there will be a shootout with subsequent standardisation. Really no different from any other communication protocol evolution we've seen in the past.