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The trouble with trillions

The internet has cracked the 1 billion mark — but what’s coming next dwarfs all that we’ve achieved and been able to wrap our heads around to date. How can we possibly prepare for a future where we need to think about connecting (and managing, or not) trillions of smart devices? This simple video is well worth the a few hundred seconds of your time:


Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo.

This is a short film (a fast paced preview of a larger effort) by MAYA Design created to put some perspective on the invisible but fast approaching challenges and opportunities in the pervasive computing age. For more information please visit: http://www.maya.com/practices/research Really interested in the implications of a trillion-node world? Read Dr. Peter Lucas’s seminal white paper that not only predicted this sort of scaling and complexity but outlined some of the resilient patterns that we need to follow to get there from here. http://www.maya.com/portfolio/the-trillion-node-network

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