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Boonying Trapurso
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The Future According to IDC: Embedded Systems

06/17/2005 9:00 AM

International Data Corporation (IDC) has forecast that the world is moving toward the next era, "the invisible computing era", during which embedded technologies will boom. Invisible computing is a term to describe the coming age of ubiquitous task-specific computing devices.

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BRodda
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Invisible Computing

06/17/2005 11:02 AM

We already live in the invisible computing age. Most people don't realize that there are computers in toasters, refrigerators, cars, remote controls, TVs, ect, ect.
The fact that is it invisible means that no one knows they are already surrounded.

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