What you want from networking is ubiquity, at the socket or wifi level, in the same way that what you want from a power socket is well-specified amount of powe

What you want from networking is ubiquity, at the socket or wifi level, in the same way that what you want from a power socket is well-specified amount of power. So, you are not likely to get "exciting" changes in networking, but you may (and do) get backward-compatible upgrades in bit-rates.