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...sitting in them, traffic lights that know which roads are the most crowded and bestow green lights accordingly, and possessions that tell you exactly where you left them. And how is this brave new world to come about? Through specks of something nearly as tiny, cheap and ubiquitous as dust...
...Smart dust, actually. That's the name for the wireless networks of sensors, called motes, that Pister, 39, is building. Each mote has a chip about the size of a grain of rice that detects and records things like temperature and motion at its location. Attach it to a battery the size of an aspirin, and a mote will keep doing this for longer than a year; add a power source the size of a bottle cap, and your mote is good for a decade. Most important, the motes have minuscule radio transmitters that talk to other motes...
They said they would have liked to see more details on what Harvard will do to limit the negative impacts of construction, which range from dust to noise to vibrations...
...plan provides for a hotline for residents to call with concerns, designates a construction mitigation manager to respond to complaints and calls for measures to limit noise, dust, vibrations and truck traffic...
What’s going on here? The government normally doesn’t dust off anachronistic old laws unless it’s out to make a point, and this is no exception. It might be reassuring if the Greenpeace case were just a weird outlier. But it’s not. It is emblematic of a concerted effort by the White House and its allies to curb unwelcome dissent...