MORE MACHINES THAN PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET? 
yep that's the UN warning according to Sunday, November 20, 2005 news reports.THE UNITED NATIONS is warning that machines are starting to take over from humans as the biggest users of the world wide web.
INTERNET OF THINGS
The UN's telecommunications agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU)has just penned a report called "Internet of Things" in which it predicts the next stage in the technological revolution where humans, electronic devices, inanimate objects and databases are linked by a radically transformed Internet
RFID TAGS: 
The report says that a small number of technological developments are responsible for the trend, including miniature radio frequency RFID electronic tags that allow immediate identification and tracking, and new sensor technology, as well as smart devices and nanotechnology.
875 million Internet Users VS Tens of Billions in Future
Currently there are about 875 million Internet users worldwide, a number that may simply double if humans remain the primary users of the future. But experts are counting on tens of billions of human and inanimate "users" in future decades.
SMART DUST
--click on pixie dust to connect to Tinkerbell? 
Industrial products would also become increasingly "smart", gaining autonomy and the intelligence thanks to miniaturised but more powerful computing capacity. "Even particles and 'dust' might be tagged and networked", the ITU said. "In this way the virtual world would map the real world, given that everything in our physical environment would have its own identity (a passport of sorts) in virtual cyberpsace," the report forecast.
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