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The Next IT Revolution
By The Economist
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This will unleash an enormous amount of new data about the world, with which we'll be able to gain ever more control over it.
The point is that previously separated objects will now be able to be connected together. This allows them to do new and interesting things.
"In years to come, wireless communications will increasingly become part of the fabric of everyday life," the magazine says. "David Clark, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who helped develop the internet, believes that in 15 or 20 years' time the network will need to accommodate a trillion devices, most of them wireless. To illustrate what that world might be like, Robert Poor, the co-founder of two wireless companies, Adozu and Ember, uses a modest example: light fixtures in buildings. If every one of them contained a small wireless node, people would not only be able to control the lighting more effectively but put them to many other uses too. If the nodes were programmed to serve as online smoke detectors, they could signal a fire as well as show its location. They could also act as a security system or provide internet connectivity to other things in the building. "
And of course, such data and connectivity will only be useful if it can be manipulated. And that means programs. Lots and lots of new, ad hoc programs. If the vision of the magazine comes to be, I'd predict a major boom in demand for tech workers.
Read the full story at The Economist.
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