Resumen de A sprinkling of smart dust
Anderson talks about the next generation of computers--smart dust. The next generation of computers will be able to carry out complex calculations but will be little bigger than a snowflake. Such tiny computers--nicknamed smart dust--would work much like their larger cousins, says Prabal Dutta at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. They will have tiny CPUs that run programs on a skeleton operating system and be able to access equally small banks of RAM and flash memory. The plan is for such sensor-packed machines to be embedded in buildings and objects in their hundreds or even thousands, providing constant updates on the world around.
