Re: Google wants to be your Internet

[Lucy Lynch <llynch () civil-tongue net>]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

> On Jan 20, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
>
> > Marshall wrote:
> > Those sorts of percentages are common in Pareto distributions (AKA
> > Zipf's law AKA "the 80-20 rule").
> > With the Zipf's exponent typical of web usage and video watching, I
> > would predict something closer to
> > 10% of the users consuming 50% of the usage, but this estimate is not
> > that unrealistic.
> >
> > I would predict that these sorts of distributions will continue as
> > long as humans are the primary consumers of
> > bandwidth.
> >
> > Regards
> > Marshall
> >
> > That's until the spambots inherit the world, right?
>
> I tend to take the long view.

sensor nets anyone?

research
http://research.cens.ucla.edu/portal/page?_pageid=59,43783&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

business
http://www.campbellsci.com/bridge-monitoring

investment
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=184400339

global alerts? disaster management? physical world traffic engineering?