2020 computing: Everything, everywhere

April 14, 2006 at 20:39 (Sensor Networks)

Interesting article about sensor networks and 'smart dust'.

Tiny computers that constantly monitor ecosystems, buildings and even human bodies could turn science on its head. Full article: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7083/full/440402a.html

Data networks will have gone from being the repositories of science to its starting point. When researchers look back on the days when computers were thought of only as desktops and portables, our world may look as strange to them as their envisaged one does to us.

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