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Both US president elect Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper have promised "New Deal" like infrastructure programs for the USA and Canada to spend their way out of a depression / recession (pick one). A new term is needed to describe this type of new intelligence-infused infrastructure. I call it the cognistructure-an infrastructure that thinks for itself.
Here's my list of top 10 smart technologies that both Olbama and Harper should have their eye on and on their planning radar screens; (Niche applications 10-6, more ubiquitous applications 5-1)
10. Smart home fabrication (supersized 3D printer that prints your home on site) to improve construction efficiency and effectiveness and waste reduction in conventional house building (but there is little chance of seeing North American building codes reformed any time soon)
9. Smart sensors in bridges, levees, roads, buildings, vehicles, satellites etc (smart dust) to provide a dynamic sense and respond environment- eco cities-earth with a fast track nervous system
8. Move toward the electrification of transportation (GM, Ford, Chysler shifts production to electric cars and trucks)and smart road networks (ie smart retractable speed bumps, movable road mediums that adjust to traffic flow and congestion)
7.Biomimicry -- designing systems, objects and surfaces based on natural biological models
6. Smart "emergent and self-organizing" traffic congestion systems that deal with natural complexity in unconventional ways
5.Infrastructure / congnistructure for Smart cities, that address and enforce "system resilience" and mitigates the consequences future potential catastrophies (climate change, severe weather, man-made disasters, riots, etc)
4.Modermizing the electrical grid to accept consumer and commercial inputs from alternate energy and reducing power loss during distribution ( via super conductors and nanowires)
3.Adoption of smart alternate energy technologies (wind, water and sun) that approach price parity with gas, coal, nuclear and electricity. Move toward distributed and diversified energy production vs centralised energy production.
2. Energy harvesting- various smart technologies that convert latent heat, all light spectra and mechanical vibration into electricity. Objects that create their own energy
1. Internet of things (IofT) (or ObjectNet or O-Net) -Intelligent objects, systems and environments have their own unique IP address and are connected together, just like web pages are linked on the web today.
© 2005-2008
Walter Derzko
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