spime.

Spimes are manufactured objects whose informational support is so extensive and rich that they are regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system.

- Bruce Sterling's southern drawl re-enforces the notion of a spime in his Internet of Things eTech keynote. It's an insightful, articulate rant on the language of emerging technology, how RFID will replace barcoding and the state of physical objects in the near future. If you didn't catch this talk a while back it's well worth the podcast.

tags: Folksonomy, Networks, Open, Semantic