The Privileged Gated Community – with invisible gates.
Only the nomenklatura elite can find or shop in the supersmartstore.
Precisely Targeted Cruise Missiles – and† precise car bombs, too.
Unhuman "Spiders" and "Agents" trawl and crawl through the Internet of Things.
Cultural differences strongly shape adoption of this technology.
Women love it, men hate it (vice versa). Old hate it, young love it (vice versa).
Message-in-a-bottle: sending other people email, tags, stories, mementos etc that are embedded or attached to objects.
The Ubiquitous Robotic Companion is a big mobile multimedia PC that follows you around.† Might act as your ubicomp agent or Aibo guide-dog.
Body-mounted wearable PCs with video, phones, handsets, earplugs, spex, gloves, voice recognition: with military, police, civilian, and glamour couture versions.
Ad-hoc networks spring up, expand, scale up, and shut down as needed.
WiMax radiates Internet broadband over entire cities or even small countries.
"Wiring-up my home" becomes "sheltering my network."† My
data, archives and connections are worth much more than the house.
The state steps in: a Ma Bell state-private universal-access utility, a federal Information Superhighway of Things, a dirigiste French Minitel of Things.
The truly wealthy own nothing, but have extensive options for the instant delivery of any potential actuality.
Testbeds and centers of early adoption lead the way, such as the Korean "New Songdo Ubiquitous City" and the Hong Kong "Octopus Card" travel system.
The Staggering, Massive Internet-of-Things Dot-Com Crash.
The Microsoft-of-Things Monopoly.
Communism 2.0, Digital-Marxism and Ubi-Maoism.
Computers recognize human gestures, head movements, eye contact, gaze direction.
What happens to the huge legacy infrastructure of untagged, dumb things?
People suffer mental breakdowns or unbearable anxiety whenever deprived of their informational tech-support.
"It Cost Too Much, Staying Human."
