Sunday, September 28, 2014

Smart Dust Is Getting Smarter New technologies allow for extremely tiny—and ubiquitous—military sensors

Smart Dust Is Getting Smarter New technologies allow for extremely tiny—and ubiquitous—military sensors


From David Axe:

In the 1972 science fiction story The Unknown by Christopher Anvil, three space pilots find themselves plagued by “ultra-miniature spy-circuits.” Tiny computers used for espionage and no bigger than a speck of dust. “They drift in like dust motes,” one space pilot says. “But you have no control over where they drift. An air current, or a static charge, can completely foul up your arrangements.”

In 1972, dust-sized electronic spies were far-out stuff. But in 2014, it’s not so far out at all.

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