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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
  • kate 12 days ago
    nicely done.
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  • Tod Robbins 12 days 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.
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  • Joshua Boucher 12 days ago
    Why will there be trillions of computers? There are only billions of people.
  • Trong Nguyen 12 days 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 6 days 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
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  • Uli Ries 12 days 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.
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  • MAYAnMAYA 12 days 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.
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  • J Tenn 11 days ago
    Informative video. Enjoyed it a lot.

    But why did visions of the Borg keep popping in my head? :-)
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  • MAYAnMAYA 11 days ago
    Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world. -Alan Kay
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  • ANDREW HUSE plus 11 days ago
    very nice! It is interesting that CPUs are already approaching 1 billion transistors here shortly.
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  • Cutpastecreate 11 days ago
    The human body comparison was spot on, loved this video well done.
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  • mpared 11 days ago
    nice one posted over at the curious brain
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  • Jeremy Sale 10 days ago
    Very cool. What a great way to illustrate something so ephemeral.
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  • Eric Krausch 10 days ago
    nice one - which song is it on the beginning ?
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  • Bruno Fujii 10 days ago
    Save the world from the Nazis?
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  • zack mctee plus 9 days ago
    a hundred thousand, trillion
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  • Jean-Luc Gardair 9 days ago
    Excelente vidéo !
    Félicitations aux concepteurs,
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  • Paul Wong plus 8 days ago
    Great video.
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  • Virginiaeversole 6 days ago
    Trillions concepts should be in
    every school system to show youth that many jobs are going to computers.

    Ginny Eversole
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  • Ottie Steien 6 days ago
    This was my first video and it was wonderful.
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  • Lynn Marentette 6 days ago
    Great video, puts things in perspective.
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  • fashionbuddha plus 5 days ago
    Great work - look forward to seeing more work!
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  • amazing info and animation. bravo!
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