Awareness Is The Key To Spimes

The word we use to describe the components of smart sensor networks, spime, has been invented by Bruce Sterling, and it is the contraction of ’space’ and ‘time’, to signify that the object knows where it is, and when it is. Most frequently this is achieved through a GPS (Global Positioning System) module, which is [...]

Technology: you can fear it, or you can fix it!

The impact of technological change in our lives has increased at a rate that itself is increasing. Two three hundred years ago you could live your life without experiencing any change at all: its pace was so slow that within a generation it could not be felt, or at least would not be felt everywhere. [...]

Neither telecoms, nor computing: people

When the (in-?) famous “Does IT matter?” Harvard Business Review article and later book came out, many comments were intoning “I told you! I was right: IT doesn’t matter…”, without realizing that the point of the author wasn’t that of demonstrating that investments in information technology didn’t provide value to the enterprise. The fact is [...]

Recent and future events: Mobile Monday, ID World, and Fifi

There are more and more events that include tracks, and coverage of the Internet Of Things, in its several variants. At Mobile Monday Amsterdam, held recently, Bruce Sterling summarized his impressions on how the field is developing, and ‘preached the gospel’ of the Internet Of Things from an unusual podium:

Image by Mobile Monday Amsterdam

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Listening to our objects

We are living at a time when we are mostly surrounded by the manufactured objects of our technological society, more than by the naturally evolved ones found outside of the human civilization. The main difference between the two being the way not only thy have been born, but also the way they interact with their [...]

The Killer App Is Colored Green

Well, of course there will be may other colors too. The Internet Of Things, and the applications of spimes, and OpenSpime are too numerous to put in just one bucket. But certainly green technologies are going to be an exceptionally important application of widespread, bottom-up, environmental sensor technology. We have come across a couple of [...]

Internet Of Things: the spreading of a meme

In the past few weeks it appears that the concept of the Internet Of Things—or Web3.0, Spimes, or however one wants to call this important forthcoming development of the web where all objects become network addressable, and in turn send data back about the world—has suddenly become mainstream.
The first to take action was CISCO which [...]

Social Energy Meter initiative announced at Picnic08

We are announcing our Social Energy Meter initiative, and suite of applications based on the OpenSpime technology at Picnic 08 right now. See the last slides of the presentation describing it, which we will also update with the soundtrack into a slidecast.
WideTag At Picnic08: The Social Energy Meter Announcement
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At Picnic 08 mixing up with great people

We are at Picnic 08 in Amsterdam, where we will speak on the Internet Of Things panel on Friday.

More to come, for sure, but in the meantime the first impression confirms our expectations of Picnic being a great response in creativity, and energy to a more exclusive and elitist TED. Even if only in its [...]

Tagging Reality: scalable semantic understanding of the world

The way we interpret reality uses the tools, and the knowledge available at a given moment, in order to maximize our benefit, and probability of survival. A lot of knowledge, arguably all knowledge is already encoded in reality, but most of the time we are loath carrying out the experiments that are necessary to [...]