http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6296-5035234.html
Discusses the implications of the Global Positioning System, expecially as it relates to the InterNet. The point here is that everything now can "know" where it is, and communicate this to other devices [actually the harder part of the equation]. Many great oaks spring up from this acorn, including automatic most-efficient physical routing between two places.
Yet again another "iceberg technology" in the ongoing development of making the world smart.
Posted by jho at October 27, 2003 10:35 AM