Two points I see... 1. How nice to track people as they move through a wired infrastructure. 2. A hacker's dream...hack the beast, hack the roads, control the highways, and all the machines! -hedges- >Somehow, I suspect they don't get the point. --MW > >>From WiRED: >http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/10297.html > >NSF Sets Up Smart-Infrastructure Shop > by Gene Koprowski > > 4:00am 16.Feb.98.PST > What if roads were wired so they could email the > state transportation department whenever a > sinkhole started to emerge? And what if a water > main, with an embedded operating system, could > send a warning to a utility's computer before it was > about to burst?
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