According to Paradiso and his coauthor, Gershon Dublon, the next great technological challenge is "context aggregation," which means the ability to assemble rapidly expanding sensor information into new "applications." The idea is that every physical space and every trace of behavior within that space-bees buzzing, your smile, the temperature fluctuations in my closet, their breakfast conversation, the swoosh of the trees-will be "informated" (translated into information). Spaces can be aggregated into a seamless flow of searchable information, sights, and sounds in much the same way that Google once aggregated web pages for indexing and searching: "This shift will create a seamless nervous system that covers the planet-and one of the main challenges for the computing community now is how to merge the rapidly evolving 'omniscient' electronic sensoria onto human perception."

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