The imminent mass deployment of pervasive computing technologies such as sensor networks and RFID tags, together with the increasing participation of the Web community in feeding geo-located information within tools such as Google Earth, will soon make available an incredible amount of information about the physical and social worlds and their processes.
Citation:
Franco Zambonelli, "Self-Organizing Services for Browsing the World: Challenges and Directions," pdp, pp.433, 15th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP'07), 2007