Thomas Frey: Will people in the future sell real estate “information rights”
as a separate property right? Smart dust will likely pose the ultimate
intrusion into our personal lives. With particles that can be
“sprinkled” throughout buildings, offices, parking lots, on furniture,
and even embedded into our pets, the streams of information coming from
all around us will, on one hand, be praised as our best friend, and
almost in the same breath, condemned as our worst enemy.
The concept of smart dust has been around for several years now.
Smartdust is a hypothetical network of tiny wireless
microelectromechanical systems including sensors, robots, or other
devices, installed with wireless communications, that can detect
anything from light, to temperature, to vibrations, to chemical
composition, etc.
the University of California in 2001, although similar ideas existed in
science fiction before then.
concept of floating particles that emit signals, and some of the legal
implications of who actually owns the particles and the information
that flows out of them.
sensors powered by radio frequency signals within the next few years.
These will undoubtedly get smaller over time and come with greater and
greater capabilities.
geographical perspective and proximity, temperature, moisture,
barametric pressure, sound, light, electrical activity, and various
chemical sensitivitities. Smart dust particles will be linked into a
mesh-type network, relaying information from point to point, sending
small signals out in a small radius, in all directions.
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