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Currently we can discern two main blocks of thought on IoT. The first is a reactive framework of ideas and thought that sees IoT as a layer of digital connectivity on top of existing infrastructure and things. This position sees IoT as a manageable set of convergent developments on infrastructure, services, applications and governance tools. It is assumed that, as in the transition from mainframe to Internet some business will fail and new ones will emerge, this will happen within the current governance, currency end business models. Read more about Internet of Things: what is it?
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RFID technology is at a crucial point, in terms of standards and policies, regulations and deployment and services. As technology becomes ever more deeply embedded in everyday life and the experienced economies, it can no longer see design as a front-end tool, nor as a social and cultural issues as a sphere that has to mold itself around new technologies. Read more about RFID, where are we in its development?
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The RFID Security and Privacy Lounge references "technical works related to security and privacy in RFID systems published in journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, thesis, eprints, and books."
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The urgency for still very progressively conscious people all over the world to engage/invade and influence these "third-space" surveillance and trend-setting communication technologies towards transformative democratic, and just life-sustaining "prosthesis" of our minds and spirits is pressing.
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Martijn de Waal & Michiel de Lange have started a special project on The Mobile City weblog in which they review new books on urban culture and new media.
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The age of ubiquitous computing is here: a computing without computers, where information processing has diffused into everyday life, and virtually disappeared from view. What does this mean to those of us who will be encountering it? How will it transform our lives? And how will we learn to make wise decisions about something so hard to see?
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From the New York Times: "Karin Landsberg, 42, a self-described “eco-geek” in Seattle, was so curious that she invited researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into her home last month to fish 12 items out of her garbage and recycling bins — a can of beans, a compact fluorescent light bulb — and tag them with small electronic tracking devices. Her trash is now on its journey to the place where it goes to die or be reborn. Read more about Where does all the trash go?
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In his lecture Taking Internet connectivity to the next stage Bob Frankston says:
"The Internet was designed as a solution to the pragmatic problem of exchanging messages between two end points without depending on any particular services in the middle. The result has been a phenomenon that has had a major effect on society. We've been able to focus on the problems we are trying to solve without being mired in the details of merely exchange the bits.
Read more about Ambient Connectivity
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In Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, Forrest Warthman and Martin Morf talk about: "City architecture and computer architecture have many similarities in their form and function--how they are physically built, how their parts connect, and how these connected parts operate.
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Premier reveals personal stories behind major policy changes
(www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-27)
by Xinhua writers Xiong Zhengyan, Wang Yaguang
"BEIJING, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Tales are usually told as entertainment, but sometimes they act as catalysts for change. In China, the world's third largest economy, story tales have led to national policy changes.
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Successful Test of the Intelligent Container for Sea Transportation
LogDynamics News
The future container will supervise its content by itself. If there is a potential risk for the freight, the intelligent container will send a warning message. This is the basic idea that has been pursued by the University of Bremen in a transfer project (of the Collaborative Research Centre 637 “Autonomous Cooperating Logistic Process – A Paradigm Shift and its Limitations”) since two years. After previous tests on trucks and under laboratory conditions, the first full system test was carried out in September 2009 for the sea-transportation of food.
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Barcode Revolution: Unique Japanese Barcode Designs via information aesthetics am 13.11.09
The firms Bar Code Revolution and D-Barcode use a unique process that allows for an original design element to be integrated into a traditional barcode. While retaining the functionality of the barcodes themselves, their visual appearence are augmented with beautiful iconography or outlined in larger graphic patterns. through Konstantin Schmoelzer Read more about Unique Japanese Barcode Designs
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From Multitouch developer Richard Monson-Haefel
"How do you report information presented by objects in a controlled
environment? The most obvious solution is to write an application that
people can access from desktop computer. I'm sure that's been done to
some degree. But is that the best solution? Perhaps something more
portable would be better like an iPhone. That would be an improvement
as you could walk around the manufacturing area and get alerted to
problems and interrogate objects at their location.
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New url (january 2012: Sourcemap) Sourcemap is a platform for researching, optimizing and sharing the supply chains behind a number of everyday products: "Simply put: We believe that people have the right to know where things come from and what they are made of." Sourcemap "is a tool for producers, business owners and consumers to understand the impact of supply chains. Our site is a social network where anyone can contribute to a shared understanding of the story behind products.
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