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Today’s cities, transportation networks and even theme parks are filling up with wireless sensors designed to sniff, hear and feel what’s going on in their environment. They’re generating an unprecedented amount of data on everything from temperature to rainfall, vibration and location, and they’re sending it all back to central …

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  1. Unep Eurobats
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    Or you could decide to stay indoors

    ... when the smart pollution sensors tell you just how unhealthy it is out on the streets.

    If only we were a member of some transnational body that could pass clean-air laws and fine our government when it broke them.

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  2. frank ly

    Oh, the possibilities

    "... the city can ... take pre-emptive action by warning people in their homes."

    City announcment channel - 2am: "EVACUATE! EVACUATE!"

    LulzCrew Twitter feed - 3am: "Gotcha!"

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  3. Fazal Majid

    BC Hydro

    Vancouver is notorious for the illegal electrical taps that power lamps in its marijuana "grow-ops", as noted by Douglas Coupland in "City of Glass".

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