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An Introduction to the Internet of Materials
- userbinator 6y agoPerhaps 20 or 30 years ago I would've really believed in the utopia that the authors seem to be promoting, but now the only thing that comes to mind is "ubiquitous mass surveillance." ...and no discussion of "analog RF backscatter" is complete without a mention of this 75-year-old technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
- ArtWomb 6y ago"it looks and feels like paper, but behaves like a wireless microphone" Another intense focus area in computational materials that pops up is the "second-skin" biosensing suit. Don't think it's quite at the stage of full duplex feedback loop. But it would make a cool sci-fi prompt: the hat that controls your thoughts, and everybody else's ;) AI/ML materials design itself has been eminently successful one decade in: Promises and perils of computational materials databases https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-020-00016-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-020-00016-5
- wincy 6y agoSeems like the site is having problems https://archive.is/FHivU https://archive.is/FHivU
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y agoThe quote by Tim Kadlec is appropriate: "The 'S' in IoT stands for security." Filling my home with a bunch of transmitters does not seem like a super wise thing to do.