Flying microchips size of a sand grain could be used for population surveilance
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#2full title == [Flying Microchips The Size Of A Sand Grain Could Be Used For Population Surveillance]
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#3AKA "smartdust"
> The concepts for Smart Dust emerged from a workshop at RAND in 1992 and a series of DARPA ISAT studies in the mid-1990s due to the potential military applications of the technology.[2] The work was strongly influenced by work at UCLA and the University of Michigan during that period, as well as science fiction authors Stanislaw Lem (in novels The Invincible in 1964 and Peace on Earth in 1985), Neal Stephenson and Vernor Vinge. The first public presentation of the concept by that name was at the American Vacuum Society meeting in Anaheim in 1996.
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#4full title == [Flying Microchips The Size Of A Sand Grain Could Be Used For Population Surveillance]
How about "Flying Microchips Size of Sand Grain Could Be Used For Population Surveillance"
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#5Reminds me of the "snarks" in Off Armageddon Reef.
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#6AKA "smartdust" > The concepts for Smart Dust emerged from a workshop at RAND in 1992 and a series of DARPA ISAT studies in the mid-1990s due to the potential military applications of the technology.[2] The work was strongly influenced by work at UCLA and the University of Michigan during that period, as well as science fiction authors Stanislaw Lem (in novels The Invincible in 1964 and Peace on Earth in 1985), Neal…
eat your heart out pham nuwen
Re: Flying microchips size of a sand grain could be used for population surveilance
#7We will monitor pollution by (checks notes) dispersing a huge swarm of tiny robots, themselves made of heavy metals, that are infeasibly difficult to recover or recycle.
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#8Obligatory plug for Diamond Age, in which wealthy aristocracy used clouds of smart pollution ( oops I mean dust ) to protect citizens and wage war.
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#9AKA "smartdust" > The concepts for Smart Dust emerged from a workshop at RAND in 1992 and a series of DARPA ISAT studies in the mid-1990s due to the potential military applications of the technology.[2] The work was strongly influenced by work at UCLA and the University of Michigan during that period, as well as science fiction authors Stanislaw Lem (in novels The Invincible in 1964 and Peace on Earth in 1985), Neal…
these are larger than dust, they actually have a small "propeller"
https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/09/23/microflier1-013b...
https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/09/23/microflier_sq-3e...
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#10We will monitor pollution by (checks notes) dispersing a huge swarm of tiny robots, themselves made of heavy metals, that are infeasibly difficult to recover or recycle.
We have covered the earth with nanobits to track air quality and the results are astonishing. The atmosphere is full of nanobots.