Sci-fi writer Bruce Serling opines on the trends towards ubiquitous computing. I'd posted previous articles on this concept, what I like to term The Mesh, the paradigm that we are evolving to a society where wireless sensing and computing elements will be embedded throughout our environment. Finally, here's another view on how the mesh could someday aid Alzheimers patients.

What's great about our culture is that unlike closed societies we are open to such new paradigms, and that unlike in socialist planned economies, we foster their development through venture capital and capitalism. The process is imperfect and somewhat painful, but it produces results.