What Technologies are going stay on Pre-Smart Dust Era?

As this concept concept continues to evolve the uses of this technology are inevitably going to cross the borders of many industries and areas of our lives. some of the obvious uses is weather forecast which now uses single static or free nodes many which are launched every day to the atmosphere attached to balloons from where they make measurements that they later transmit. but as many describe it Smart Dust will replace many of this technologies by "virtually connecting us with the environment". Instead of having a few nodes making measurements, we will have literally thousands of motes being released into the atmosphere and communicating back the intrinsic patterns of cloud movements with amazing detail.





Sources:

NewScientist. (2003). March of the Motes.  http://www.science.org.au/nova/newscientist/110ns_001.htm

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