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- Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as…
- Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters,…
- A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere.…
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