Smart Dust Is Getting Smarter New technologies allow for extremely tiny—and ubiquitous—military sensors

Smart Dust Is Getting Smarter New technologies allow for extremely tiny—and ubiquitous—military sensors

From David Axe:

In the 1972 science fiction story The Unknown by Christopher Anvil, three space pilots find themselves plagued by “ultra-miniature spy-circuits.” Tiny computers used for espionage and no bigger than a speck of dust. “They drift in like dust motes,” one space pilot says. “But you have no control over where they drift. An air current, or a static charge, can completely foul up your arrangements.”

In 1972, dust-sized electronic spies were far-out stuff. But in 2014, it’s not so far out at all.

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