11.17.2005

 

Machines and objects to overtake humans on the Internet

Machines and objects to overtake humans on the Internet: "Machines will take over from humans as the biggest users of the Internet in a brave new world of electronic sensors, smart homes, and tags that track users' movements and habits, the UN's telecommunications agency predicted.

In a report entitled 'Internet of Things', the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) outlined the expected next stage in the technological revolution where humans, electronic devices, inanimate objects and databases are linked by a radically transformed Internet. "

See Robotic Nation for details on why this is going to happen.

Comments:
At the bottom of the article it says: "In a world increasingly mediated by technology, we must ensure that the human core of our activities remains untouched," the report concluded.

Wacky.

The image is a person enclosed in an exo-skeleton, or some sort of anime power-suit.

But we already know: That changes how people act, how they think.

We are changing; No doubt about it.

I think it'll be like in the John Shirley story: "When the City comes a walkin', we'll all be obsolete."
 
I can see this happening too, I can already identify over 25% of all visits to one of my websites as being from a robot. I'm not even taking into account the SPAM-bots that pretend to be a standard user operated browser.
 
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