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by MAYAnMAYA

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by MAYAnMAYA

1 year ago

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: 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. maya.com/portfolio/the-trillion-node-network

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Michele Lorito-Chase
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Carol Reid
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kateopolis 4 months ago

nicely done.
Tod Robbins 4 months ago

Who would have thought? The human body as a model for singularity type computing, makes me think of the sci-fi-ish neohumanism. Awesome video.
Joshua Boucher 4 months ago

Why will there be trillions of computers? There are only billions of people.
Trong Nguyen 4 months ago

I'm not sure if there would be necessarily trillions of computers, but take a look at it now.

I am one person. I own a laptop, a desktop, an Xbox, and a cell phone. That's already 4 for me. If everyone had all four of those, then we'd be at 24 billion.

But fast forward to the future, our TV's could be computing and communicating with each other or with the sound system, Ebooks will be surfing the web, and your car could be talking to another car. List a few simple household items and you're getting on your way to a trillion.There are tons more examples, but I hope you get the point.
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Virginiaeversole 4 months ago

Great Thought ! I myself never thought of so many objects we do depend on and ones we don't.
I appreciate people such as yourself to look at something that appears difficult for some of us to grasp. Thank you for simpflying the idea.
Ginny Eversole
Uli Ries 4 months ago

@Joshua: We are not talking computers here but any electronic device: fridges, elevators, cars, planes. On top of that there will be sensors connected to the internet: measuring the temperature in every house/street, measuring the densitiy of traffic all over the world, taking care of elderly people by watching their movements etc.
MAYAnMAYA 4 months ago

Number of outlets, breakers, light switches in world? 300 billion. That's a start. Freeze frame the front page of the newspaper (full screen view) and read a story about what will happen if a fraction of those outlets are networked.
J Tenn 4 months ago

Informative video. Enjoyed it a lot.

But why did visions of the Borg keep popping in my head? :-)
Michael Popp 3 months ago

haha! resistance is futile!
MAYAnMAYA 4 months ago

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world. -Alan Kay
ANDREW HUSE 4 months ago

very nice! It is interesting that CPUs are already approaching 1 billion transistors here shortly.
Cutpastecreate 4 months ago

The human body comparison was spot on, loved this video well done.
mpared 4 months ago

nice one posted over at the curious brain
Jeremy Sale 4 months ago

Very cool. What a great way to illustrate something so ephemeral.
Eric Krausch 4 months ago

nice one - which song is it on the beginning ?
Bruno Fujii 4 months ago

Save the world from the Nazis?
Zack McTee 4 months ago

a hundred thousand, trillion
Jean-Luc Gardair 4 months ago

Excelente vidéo !
Félicitations aux concepteurs,
Paul Wong 4 months ago

Great video.
Virginiaeversole 4 months ago

Trillions concepts should be in
every school system to show youth that many jobs are going to computers.

Ginny Eversole
Ottie Steien 4 months ago

This was my first video and it was wonderful.
Lynn Marentette 4 months ago

Great video, puts things in perspective.
fashionbuddha 4 months ago

Great work - look forward to seeing more work!
Elena Sanchez Vilela 4 months ago

amazing info and animation. bravo!
Eric J 4 months ago

I've watched this video at least six times now, and something just dawned on me - the narrator reminds me of Ira Glass. MAYA here has perfectly captured the instantly comprehensible way he explains things on "This American Life." Bravo on both the informative video and a carefully crafted work of storytelling.
Rutger Van Zuidam 4 months ago

loved it, thanks for sharing!
MAYAnMAYA 4 months ago

Well, we are very big fans of Ira Glass and appreciate the comparison (though we're far from his level we try our best). He is a master and his show is the gold standard for finding wonderful tangible stories about important subjects. Thanks you made our day!
Eddie VIII 4 months ago

Human technology (from the wheel to the web) will evolve as we have -- because it is OF us. As if it were our maturing child, passing through stages of development PHYSICALLY and COGNITIVELY. It is a reflection of human knowledge and accomplishment. Your BODY metaphor is not far off. Is not Technology developing physically and cognitively? One day, we will see this child off to college to become independent!

And i don't think it's anything to be scared of. It's something to be proud of.
Kilian Koeltzsch 4 months ago

Brilliant (or should I say trilliant?) idea... Very fun to watch!
Reynante Martinez 2 months ago

Wow! Superb information and visuals. "Too much information..." Nice. ^_^
Cassandra Alamilla 2 months ago

this is a very amazing video, really explains the whole information age thing and history&future of computere
mayari 25 days ago

do we even have so much material to build so many computers?
smail_web 2 days ago

nice
Carol Reid 12 hours ago

Very engaging. :)