UN predicts 'internet of things'

Smartmobs says:

UN predicts ‘internet of things’:

While World leaders discussed in Tunis net and development a study by the ITU looks at how the use of electronic tags and sensors could create an “internet of things”.

“It would seem that science fiction is slowly turning into science fact in an ‘Internet of Things’ based on ubiquitous network connectivity,” said the report.

“Today, in the 2000s, we are heading into a new era of ubiquity, where the ‘users’ of the internet will be counted in billions and where humans may become the minority as generators and receivers of traffic.”

read more on BBC News

Why do I blog this? Seems to be a lot of discussion about science-fiction becoming science-fact, Google’able things and an internet of such objects.

thx mobsters

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