The Future: six drivers of global change Part 36

74 "Internet of Everything."

Dave Evans, "How the Internet of Everything Will Change the World ... for the Better," Cis...o...b..og, November 7, 2012, http://blogs.cisco.com/news/how-the-internet-of-everything-will-change-the-worldfor-the-better-infographic/.

75 voluminous new quant.i.ties of data

McKinsey Inst.i.tute, "Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Compet.i.tion, and Productivity," May 2011, http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Technology_and_Innovation/Big_data_The_next_frontier_for_innovation.

76 without being processed by computers for patterns and meaning

Al Gore, "The Digital Earth: Understanding Our Planet in the 21st Century," speech at the California Science Center, January 31, 1998, http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=6210&version=1&format=doc.

77 actuators has been disposed of soon after it is collected

Michael Chui, Markus Loffler, and Roger Roberts, "The Internet of Things," McKinsey Quarterly, 2010.

78 promote efficiency in industry and business

McKinsey Inst.i.tute, "Big data."

79 information collected during the seconds prior to and during

"In-Car Camera Records Accidents," BBC News, October 14, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/southern_counties/4341342.stm.

80 airplanes and most security cameras in buildings

Kevin Bonsor, "How Black Boxes Work," HowStuffWorks, http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/black-box3.htm.

81 twice the amount of information presently generated

Tony Hoffman, "IBM Preps Hyper-Fast Computing System for World's Largest Radiotelescope," PC Magazine, April 2, 2012.

82 billions of messages posted each day on social networks

Chui, Loffler, and Roberts, "The Internet of Things"; McKinsey Inst.i.tute, "Big Data."

83 Twitter Earthquake Detector

Tim Lohman, "Twitter to Detect Earthquakes, Tsunamis," Computer World, June 1, 2011.

84 the Global Pulse program Ban Ki-moon launched

Steve Lohr, "The Internet Gets Physical," New York Times, December 17, 2011.

85 predict social unrest in countries and regions of particular interest

John Markoff, "Government Aims to Build a 'Data Eye in the Sky,' " New York Times, October 10, 2011.

86 predict how well Hollywood-and Bollywood-movies will perform

Ibid.

87 dominant content on the Internet is printed words

Roger E. Bohn and James E. Short, "How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers," December 2009, http://hmi.ucsd.edu/pdf/HMI_2009_ConsumerReport_Dec9_2009.pdf.

88 ma.s.sive crowds of election protesters in Moscow

Alissa de Carbonnel, "Social Media Makes Anti-Putin Protests 's...o...b..ll,' " Reuters, December 7, 2011.

89 spotlighting the excesses of elites

Thomas Friedman, "This Is Just the Start," New York Times, March 1, 2011.

90 used by rebels in Misrata to guide their mortars