Spime

What is Spime?


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Noun: A real life physical object with knowledge of itself.

Possesing the following characteristics:

1)Small, inexpensive means of remotely and uniquely identifying objects over short ranges; in other words, radio-frequency identification.

2)A mechanism to precisely locate something on Earth, such as a global-positioning system.

3)A way to mine large amounts of data for things that match some given criteria, like internet search engines.

4)Tools to virtually construct nearly any kind of object; computer-aided design.

5)Ways to rapidly prototype virtual objects into real ones. Sophisticated, automated fabrication of a specification for an object, through “three-dimensional printers.”

6)“Cradle-to-cradle” life-spans for objects. Cheap, effective recycling.

Spimes are objects precisely located in space and time.

They have histories. They are recorded, tracked, inventoried, and always associated with a story.

Spimes have identities, they are protagonists of a documented process.

They are searchable, like Google. You can think of Spimes as being auto-Googling objects.

(Coined by Bruce Sterling at SIGGRAPH 2004)

"Where the heck did I put my keys?"

"They got spime?"

"Sure!"

"Then Google them man!"

See blogject, rfid, wrangle


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