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by Gillette, Procter and Gamble, and Unilever, the consortium now boasts one
hundred global companies and five of the world’s leading research centers, including
the University of Cambridge and MIT. According to one network member, Verisign,
the network ‘‘has the potential to be much larger and more complex than the
network of websites on the Internet. The Domain Name System (DNS), which converts
domain names to IP addresses, processes over 10 billion queries per day. The
Object Name Service (ONS), which will provide similar services for the EPCglobal
Network, is expected to process more than 100 billion queries a day.’’ ‘‘FYI: The
EPCglobal Network: ‘The Internet of Things,’’’ available on the Verisign website at
http://www.verisign.com/products-services/naming-and-directory-services/directoryservices/epc
-network-services/page_001196.html.
35. For a well-informed review of the field, see Neil Gershenfeld, When Things Start to
Think (New York: Henry Holt, 1999).
36. For a large archive of Sterling’s writings, see http://www.viridiandesign.org/.
37. For a fascinating account of how industrial design adapted to the coming of the
electrical age, see Tilmann Buddensieg, Industriekultur: Peter Behrens and the AEG,
1907–1914 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1984).
38. See the account of the project on the Microsoft Research website at http://
research.microsoft.com/easyliving.
39. Bahar Barami, ‘‘Market Trends in Homeland Security Technologies’’ (paper
presented at the IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Cambridge,
Mass., April 21–22, 2004), available at http://www.volpe.dot.gov/ourwork/
dimensions/050604/trends.doc.
40. In the words of its website (http://conference.digitalidworld.com/2004/), Digital
ID World ‘‘provides an environment in which enterprises, service providers, financial
institutions, government officials and vendors have meaningful interactions about
the issues and future of the digital identity industry. Attendees consist of CEO’s,
CTO’s, CIO’s, senior architects, privacy and security officers, product development
and marketing managers, senior IT managers, industry analysts, pundits, visionaries
and personalities shaping the identity space.’’
41. Louisa Liu and Robin Simpson, ‘‘China Starts Rollout of National ID Smart Card’’
(February 19, 2002), available on the Gartner Group website at http://www4.gartner
.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=104570.
42. Mike Davis, Beyond Bladerunner: Urban Control and the Ecology of Fear (New York:
New Press, 1993), 21.
43. Donna Haraway, ‘‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-
Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,’’ in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention
of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991), 149–181, available at http://www
.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html.