8 technologies to save the world | 2 | Business 2.0 - 0 views
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Call it the networked environment. Picture tiny - we're talking small as a dime - wireless sensors lining lake beds and ocean floors, buried in the ground, and floating in the sky. All the time they are sniffing the air, water, and soil for pollutants and detecting changes in temperature and pressure.
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The payoff: real-time data on a variety of phenomena that affect the economy and society - climate change, hurricanes, air and water pollution.