Five Technologies Tim O'Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0

The Planetary Skin program is a joint venture between NASA and Cisco which proposes a unifying approach to monitoring, measuring, and managing rural environments, rural to urban interconnects, and urban environments.  Recently Tim O'Reilly named the Planetary skin one of the Five technologies which point past web 2.0

Five Technologies Tim O'Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb
By Marshall Kirkpatrick
NASA and CISCO unveiled plans last month to build what they call a Planetary Skin of sensors to monitor global climate change. The ability to process all the information that will come in through such a network of sensors is a good ...
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