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ILLUSTRATION BY JACOB STEAD
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NOVEMBER 2013
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HEMISPHERESMAGAZINE.COM
IN 1993, SCIENTISTS
at Cambridge Uni-
versity in England trained a camera on
a coffeepot and created a live feed to the
World Wide Web for people to watch at
their leisure. What fun that pot was, sit-
ting therepercolating. By2002, somebody
had hooked a remote-controlled Etch
A Sketch to the Web, allowing users to
create wobbly circles in real time. Today,
we are connected to the Internet inways
that those early pioneers couldn’t have
imagined. We have intelligent transpor-
tation systems, intelligent buildings and
intelligent energy grids, all of which
can work together via the Web. And if
you don’t believe us, you can go
IT’S ALL CONNECTED
PRETTY SOON, EVEN YOUR TROUSERS WILL HAVE THEIR OWN TWITTER ACCOUNT
BY PAUL FORD
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