Declan Butler reports in his blog about a free issue of "Nature" about the
future of Computing:
"These new computers would take the form of networks of sensors with
data-processing and transmission facilities built in. Millions or billions
of tiny computers - called 'motes', 'nodes' or 'pods' - would be embedded
into the fabric of the real world. They would act in concert, sharing the
data that each of them gathers so as to process them into meaningful digital
representations of the world. Researchers could tap into these 'sensor webs'
to ask new questions or test hypotheses. Even when the scientists were busy
elsewhere, the webs would go on analysing events autonomously, modifying
their behaviour to suit their changing experience of the world."
As he links to every article of the issue it is a good entry point into the
visions of a world where pervasive computing, databases and digital globes
are converging to unite the real and the virtual world:
http://declanbutler.info/blog/?p=30
Best regards, Eric
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