Injectable RFID capsules are "hidden" inside the human flesh of various victims, users, or both.
UbiToys, UbiFun and "Magic" Entertainment systems.
Smart tickets allow crowd management for Amusement Parks, Sports Events, Raves, Fairs, Festivals, etc.
New common standards for fully describing products;
web-tags cross older language and national barriers.
Data that gets more valuable as more people see it and use it.
WikiProducts.
Big super-cheap screens and electronic wallpaper can display
data anywhere, ceilings, floors, entire skyscrapers, you name it.
Single "secure" pass-keys for pretty much everything:
buses, ferries, planes, trains, cabs, your apartment, etc.
Role-Playing Games and 3-D Virtual Worlds on the Net strongly interact with the real world.
The fine-art world intervenes:† Internet-of-Things Art, Arphid Art, Spime Art, Locative Art, Landscape Art, a "relational aesthetics" emerges.
Privately tagged locations and spaces:† "My aunt works here."
"Ask for the free donuts here, they're pretty good."
Old-school books, manuals, movies melt into a surging digital sea of taggable, searchable "microparticles."
"Calm Technology" works invisibly and below conscious awareness, with no need to type or stare at screens.
Cognitive Loading: there's just too much to pay attention to.
Only fanatics, geeks and experts can keep up with the thing-net.
Opportunity Cost:† I just don't have time to learn this or do this.† My virtual life ate my actual life!
A huge popular tumult of ratings, reviews, comments, tags, and playlists are attached to everything taggable.
Taxonomy versus Folksonomy, or
"Read the F***ing Manual" versus "Google F***ing Exists."
Fabricators manufacture actual, useful objects from virtual plans in one simple step.† Click My Blog, Make This Object.
Stolen laptops and phones routinely finger thieves to the cops.
"Hiking in the wilderness" commonly includes GPS location and pattern-recognition with geological, botanical and zoological databases.
Clever architectures of participation enable much useful "work" that feels and acts like play.
"Exformation," having information removed from the Net, becomes a major industry.
A ubiquitous-computing industry arises, the net-of-things is taught in schools, new, special design and engineering groups arise and professionalize.
Ubi-architecture:† highly interactive buildings, malls, suburbs, and homes are built through new Internet-based design, supply and assembly methods.
New, broad standards emerge that connect and interoperate a very wide host of appliances and devices.
Commons-based peer-production.† Give a little effort, get a lot.
Insidious micromedia travels the web in liquid microchunks.
No more 9-to-5 career: "hobby" becomes "job" becomes "jobby."
In a ubi-system, even play is some kind of work.
Global Positioning Systems with global satellite tracking.
European Galileo GPS arrives, followed by Chinese, Indian, etc.
Google Maps on the Web becomes pole-to-pole, incredibly detailed, updates every hour.
Open-Source, Fully-Shareable, Communal, Physical Possessions
and Tools.
Bags of "smart dust" are sold for a few cents. "Smart paint" contains a bucketfull of paint-on sensors.
