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Browsing Reality With Sensor Networks
Roland Piquepaille writes "Welcome to the world of 'Reality Mining'! The billions of networked sensors that exist today are generating humongous streams of data. What about 'data mining' this big flow of data and discover our environment in a way that never existed before? Suddenly, sensors would look like pixels and we would start to browse reality as easily as we browse web pages today. Fascinating concept! Some fellows at Accenture Technology Labs are thinking about this and they already have designed some demos of reality mining software. Their demos include web agents, data modeling, GIS systems and much more. They also show how you could detect fires or how you would do virtual shopping. Please read their long article or this shorter summary for a couple of examples."
I started browsing reality around the age of 1, when I learned to WALK.
That is a really cool idea.
;-)
Did anyone else think of Snowcrash when they saw this? It's almost like the world of Snowcrash super-imposed on reality with all the cool stuff.
However, this is also ripe for abuse. I can think of so many people who'd want to "hack" into what you see and do weird things (make you see a fire in places where there is not).
Already, the latest JPEG exploit makes me think of hacking into a system by merely viewing an image - this would make it closer to that reality
Vague name with 'mining' - check.
Gratuitous use of the word 'virtual' - check.
'Shopping' is involved somehow - check.
Time to go hustle up some VC like it was 1997!
he just takes it, then reposts it for 400$ per advert per month, nice little cashflow for copyright infringment
do you think sensormag mind him reposting their articles on his website without permission for profit ?
maybe a C&D would persuade weblogs.com to tighten up ?
People have been talking about integrating sensor networks like this for a long time. One issue that comes up often is what to do about privacy - especially with regard to image data. You can put a camera on every building in town - and you can be guaranteed that at least one person per day will object to having their picture taken and used for some open-source data fusion project.
This sig is a test. If this had been an actual sig, you would be reading something quite a bit wittier than this now.
The US gov't wants to do this kind of thing, not with sensors but with data from credit cards, libraries, schools, airlines, etc. I haven't been too worried about this so far, considering that we don't have the technology to pull useful data out of all that noise, but if we can do it with sensor networks, who knows. How long until all of those cameras at intersections are hooked up into one all-seeing electronic mind that will always know where you're going and what you do when you get there?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Actually there is such a thing, it goes by the code name T.P.V, thats Total Perspective Vortex.
For it's starting molecules it uses a piece of fairy cake.
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1: Make Roland Piquepaille a foe
2: Block my foe's submissions from my view of the front page
Failing that, howsabout you just ignore his submissions and move on to the next story?
/me forgot to check the submitter on this one. 'Doh!
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Wake me when we have effective position location sensors, indoors and out, and the required beacon deployment to be useful most places.
Until then its all BS.
Data is useless without context. Position is the best context we have any hope of auto-generating.
You guys do know this is a hoax, right?
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This is getting really annoying. Either put the bozo in his own section or stop posting his stupid ads. Or at least edit them to reference the original story, not the Plogged version. This is like being subscribed to PR Newswire.
From the article:
As cameras become a standard cell phone feature, we're becoming the most connected and instrumented people in history.
How are we merely becoming the most connected people? I don't remember seeing Caesar cruising through Rome, telling all his "boys" to "holla back at a brotha on my 2-Way, cause I'm a roll out to Cairo for a weekend dip in the Nile". Perhaps that is information that my public school budgets couldn't afford to dig up.
- Outcry From Tinfoil Hat Brigade
- I Welcome Our New Lamp Post Overlords
- Maybe We Can Beowulf These Sensors
- This Will Finally Finish SCO Off
- Something About Soviet Russia
- A Groklaw Link Saying "We Filed Suit Against It Three Weeks Ago"
- I Voted For Kodos
Repeat Above In Random Order Until...
Profit!
I have a plan. Using mainly spoons, we'll tunnel our way out of the city...
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The problem is of course that people are against this. I, for one, do not have a problem as long as it's easily accessible public information. Think back to 20 years ago. What would you say if your next-door neighbor had our present time internet, with access to public records, opinions, sports cores, etc. etc. etc. We take it for granted now because everyone can do it.
I think this is probably what will cause the singularity.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Although this is a cool idea, it's dangerous too. You know how you get all upset with cookies and spyware? Well, this can (and probably will, sooner or later) lead to the same thing in real life. Imagine running out of milk and being bombarded with Mayfield ads everywhere you go.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
and hiding will become an artform.. because no one will believe that something could actually *hide* from the sensor web... So hidden things will be very well hidden indeed once you assume that they cannot exist.
meh
Quite a few Slashdot readers think Roland Piquepaille (rpiquepa is exploiting this site as a way of upping his ad impressions. There's a strong argument that he wants to turn the Slashdot effect into ad money, and this is supported by the habit he has of linking not to the article, but to a verbatim copy posted on his ad-supported blog. Engadget (ptorrone) are pretty dubious too, but at least they bother to write their own content.
/. editors, and I don't necessarily think that their submissions should be rejected. Whether they are astroturf or not is up to the individual reader to decide, and some people seem to enjoy them. What I would like to see is the ability to let the individual block submissions from particular users somehow, either as a subscription feature (block by UID / foes list), or a Firefox extension (based on NukeAnything perhaps).
Having said that, I don't think Roland etc are bribing the
And I no, I don't have the time / skillset / influence to code the above myself. I'm just putting some ideas out for discussion.
Vino, gyno, and techno -Bruce Sterling
No catch phrase bullsh!t here:
http://www.ewcd.org/ - about 80 remote monitoring stations updated hourly.
http://www.sevierriver.org/ - something similar
on how to pick the pockets of their clients. I have just rolled off a(nother) major project that they screwed up. The offshored it to their own delivery centre in Manila and I guess the project plan was a result of mining the imagination and the offshore delivery centre was full of virtual resources.
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