http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,85671,00.html
Eliot lamented about the information lost in the data; this opinion piece, which runs somewhat against the grain of the previous entry about the OII, suggests that we are a decade away from being able to give an InterNet address to everything [which, it my calculator is correct, will require something even more extensive than IPv6]. In effect, the ways in which data become 'alive' in a complex mesh of sensors, links, and effectuators simply replicates the notion of 'making the world smart' as discussed in previous entries.
An "informated" economy will be an entirely different living and working environment, with changes in the educational system not the least among the issues involved in realizing this.
Posted by jho at October 9, 2003 10:37 AM