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From: adam <adam@grexengine.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 13:57:30 +0000
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on Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 08:45:55AM -0800, Sean Kelly wrote:
> Frank Crowell wrote:
>> I don't drink or do drugs, I just write like I do. There is a
>> meme in the techno world now to "embed everything" and to "go
>> wireless everywhere". But as I was thinking of alternative to
>> FEAR I could see an approach to embed everything with smarts. So
>> instead of a singular brain, you have an augmented brain. I may
>> be making this stuff up as I go along, but I believe there is
>> material on the Net that suggests creating objects that can
>> broadcast their properties. On paper the idea of smart cars and
>> roads have been around. The designs were based on devices
>> broadcasting to cars, such as a road marker saying "slow down
>> accident 1.5 miles ahead". Or the wheel device saying, "chuck
>> hole ahead, go left, no no i mean your other left. argh we are
>> dead." Ok that didn't work out too good.
Sounds very much like Sun's JINI work (which I keep hearing people
raving about and complaining that the world at large seems to be
ignoring what might be the most insanely great thing Sun has ever
done...):
http://wwws.sun.com/software/jini/
(Note: JINI is intended I believe to be the architecture for doing
such things, I have no idea whether Sun are doing anything exciting
with it at the moment)
Adam M
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