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    What is a spime?

    By David Orban on February 21, 2008

    The word spime has been coined by Bruce Sterling from the contraction of the two terms space and time to express the nature of a new class of objects, which are aware of where they are, and when they are on the planet. This awareness is achieved through the universal inclusion of global positioning functionality, coupled with the sensing of some parameter of the environment, and a means of recording and communicating the set of data.

    Spimes are the foundation of a new global structure, the Internet of Things, where the value of the network arises from the autonomous communications objects, without the necessity of human intervention.

    OpenSpime Inc. is grateful to Bruce for having graciously conceded the permission to use his term for our operations!

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