Smart Dust on a Friday Afternoon
"Looking out a decade or two, every person and thing could be instrumented with sensors that feed data into the cloud and, based on polices and inferred rules, take actions on behalf of the 'client.'" - From an interesting article by Dan Farber on ZDNet.
Guess that's the whole "pervasive computing" thing. Real virtuality. Go go, smart dust!
The article also drops this little bon mot: "Gartner analysts predicted that by 2015, passive tags would begin to inhabit every non-trivial object, and every thing could be identifiable and located." I'm not sure if I buy that, but I do wonder at what constitutes a "non-trivial object".
If it does all come to pass, perhaps they'll be able to answer the age-old Pixies question:
"Where is my mind?"
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