Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Blurring the Physical with the Cyber
A Reuters piece on Yahoo News reports a website that will allow people to hunt deer over the internet. The Fish and Game people are worried they don't have regulations that covers hunters who are not in physical proximity with the prey.
What fascinates me is the blur between the physical world and the cyber world.
It started with connecting passive sensors to the internet (the wave height off La Jolla Beach, for example). It moves to interacting with web'd objects (household devices that come with built in IP addresses and web servers). And now we have non-web'd devices like these guns that we can control across the web. What's next? Self-organizing wireless dust networks.
We are going to need more address space than IPv6 is going to give us.
What fascinates me is the blur between the physical world and the cyber world.
It started with connecting passive sensors to the internet (the wave height off La Jolla Beach, for example). It moves to interacting with web'd objects (household devices that come with built in IP addresses and web servers). And now we have non-web'd devices like these guns that we can control across the web. What's next? Self-organizing wireless dust networks.
We are going to need more address space than IPv6 is going to give us.
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