The Internet of Things - What is a Spime?

CoolVibe writes "From the abstract in the talk: "World-renowned Science Fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling will outline his ideas for SPIMES, a form of ubiquitous computing that gives smarts and 'searchabiliity' to even the most mundane of physical products. Imagine losing your car keys and being able to search for them with Google Earth." It's a very interesting lecture given by Bruce Sterling about something we might see in the near future. The lecture can be viewed here on Google Video."

"my fucking keys"

[G27 Radio]

Imagine losing your car keys and being able to search for them with Google Earth.

http://static.flickr.com/108/261905722_d2912c0465. jpg?v=0 [flickr.com]

Still waiting for them to add it to Earth.

google 2084 anyone?

[wizardforce]

http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/googl e%202084.jpg [futureofthebook.org]

I'm all for it

[Rude Turnip]

As long as you can reticulate them, of course.

When I Google Earth it says, "Wish you were here."

[HTH NE1]

I got up one morning and couldn't find my socks. So I called Information. She said, "Hello, Information." I said, "I can't find my socks." She said, "They're behind the couch." They were.

-- Steven Wright

Re:Utopian privacy

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine Googlebots indexing your keys before you lost them.

robots.txt
User-agent: *
disallow: /pants

User-agent: girl-next-door
disallow: /wallet

Besides...

[sczimme]

Imagine losing your car keys and being able to search for them with Google Earth
...
By the time any of this technology could ship we'd probably have thought controlled car locks. No need for keys then.

If I end up so far from my car keys that I need GOOGLE EARTH to find them, I have failed miserably...

Or had a really good time. I suppose it could go either way (or both).

Re:Besides...

[Caffeinate]

Or had a really good time. I suppose it could go either way . . .

To: The World
Fr: Caffeinate

This is the only time that the phrases "go either way" and "good time" are to ever be combined.

That is all.

Re:Besides...

[IthnkImParanoid]

Perhaps if you were more open minded, you'd have more good times....

Re:Besides...

[cooley]

What if I lose my keys somewhere other than Earth? WHAT THEN, Mr. Bruce "Sparty-pants" Sterling?

Where is your Google NOW?

Re:What are car keys?

[ozmanjusri]

Three meters is fifteen feet? You wanna check that math again?

Good to see a rocket scientist who can get unit conversion right...