Wednesday 6 August 2008

Ubiquitous Computing: Big Brother’s All-Seeing Eye

Old Thinker News
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

An “Everyware” world, as Adam Greenfield calls it, is a world in which computers are embedded and merged seamlessly everywhere in the environment. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags communicate their position and other information constantly in a vast network. Everyday objects become “searchable” as if they were part of the interconnected world wide web. In this interconnected internet of things, scientific management and surveillance of people and the environment we inhabit becomes possible, and marketers’ ultimate dreams come true.

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