Bruce, Calvin e Hobbes

28 Settembre 2007 in calvin hobbes, spime, sterling

Bruce è Bruce Sterling, la parte seria di questo post. Prendetevi qualche minuto per ragionare sul concetto di “Spime“.

The six facets of spimes are:

1. Small, inexpensive means of remotely and uniquely identifying objects over short ranges
2. A mechanism to precisely locate something on Earth
3. A way to mine large amounts of data for things that match some given criteria
4. Tools to virtually construct nearly any kind of object
5. Ways to rapidly prototype virtual objects into real ones.
6. “Cradle-to-cradle” life-spans for objects. Cheap, effective recycling.

With all six of these, one could track the entire existence of an object, from before it was made (its virtual representation), through its manufacture, its ownership history, its physical location, until its eventual obsolescence and breaking-down back into raw material to be used for new instantiations of objects. If recorded, the lifetime of the object can be archived, and searched for.

“Ambient findability describes a world at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet in which we can find anyone or anything from anywhere at anytime.”

Il video è un po lungo (e mettono tristezza tutte quelle seggiole vuote fra il pubblico), qui c’è un riassunto.

Calvin e Hobbes invece sono ovviamente la parte ludica di questo post. M