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Friday, January 21, 2005
Friday Foray: An Internet of Things -- In a video (Win media or Quicktime) lecture, Shaping Things to Come, science fiction author and journalist Bruce Sterling peeks into the future via six technological trends..
"...six sides of a black box, and inside that box is the Christmas surprise -- the thing that is to come."
These six include interactive chips that can label things with unique identities (RFID), local and global positioning systems, powerful search engines, 3-D virtual objects, rapid-prototype computer fabrication, and cradle-to-cradle recycling as a "new kind of death for objects."
An intriguing "greater than the sum of the parts" exploration.
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