Ubiquitous sensor networks: A glimpse of where we are going

Peter Drucker investigated the impact of railroad on society. “The technology of the steam engine did not end with the railroad.” Although “the railroad made the Industrial Revolution accomplished fact”, the boom it triggered lasted almost a hundred years. The dynamics of the technology shifted to totally new “social institutions: the modern postal service, the daily paper, investment banking, and commercial banking, to name just a few.”