Tag: IoT

  • A Citywide Mesh Network – Science Fiction or Future Fact?

    I recently finished Neal Stephenson’s excellent “Seveneves”. The plot is that the moon blows up due to an unknown force. Initially people marvel at the now fragmented moon, but due to the intelligent analysis of one of the protagonists it becomes clear that these fragments will keep fragmenting and eventually rain down on earth. The lunar…

  • The Data Deluge, Birds and the Beginning of Memory

    One of my heroes is the avant garde artist Laurie Anderson. She is probably best known for the unlikely hit “Oh Superman”  in the eighties and being married to Lou Reed, but I think she is an artist of comparable or even greater magnitude. On one of her later albums is a typical Laurie Anderson song…

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