“Smart Dust is an emerging technology made up from tiny, wireless sensors or “motes”. Eventually, these devices will be smart enough to talk with other sensors yet small enough to fit on the head of a pin. Each mote is a tiny computer with a power supply, one more sensors, and communications system. The term was coined in the 1990s by UC Berkeley researcher Kris Pister, who envisioned “smart dust” spreading rice-grain sized sensors across the Earth (think a more mobile version of Helen Hunt’s tornado trackers in ‘Twister’). These sensors would gather loads of environmental data, and then send it all back to a central server.
Future World Micro Computers sprinkled everywhere, tracking and recording our movements. Dreams of a better future, but usher in a Big Brother nightmare with no privacy.
this response to the above video (including the video in it, so if you only want to watch one of these you can kill 2 ducks with one rock here) poses a conspiracy theory that’s kindov retarded but im posting it anyway. It says there are already Smart Dust particles in the air and that we breath them and it gives us cancer but then disolves into our body to control us and thats how come there is no actual evidence of that happening any time ever and also how there are so many American Idol fans still.
HP will start depositing “smart dust” around the globe in the next two years.