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When you first hear the word, Smart Dust, you might think of a fairy tale or something involving magic. Smart Dust actually describes microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices that include sensors, computational ability, and more. They can be as tiny as dust particles and can spread throughout buildings and into the atmosphere to collect and monitor data. Smart Dust isn’t actually a new concept and has been around since the beginning of the 1990s when it was invented out of a prolonged research and study project convened by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Research And Development Corporation (RAND).

Smart Dust can be employed in most industries from agriculture to the medical industry and communication. To be precise, the entire world could be measured by means of these omnipresent sensors. The Machine-to-Machine accessible smart dust is made of motes, which are tiny sensors capable of performing a variety of functions. Smart dust is activated by MEMS and brings progression in digital circuitry and wireless communication. Every node used in the sensor network comprises three subsystems including the mechanisms that sense the environment, the processing means to perform local computations, and the communication subsystem responsible for message exchanging based on adjoining sensor nodes.

https://chaione.com/blog/smart-dust-communication-systems-and-future/

THE "GOOD" OF SMART DUST

The notion of smart dust sounds like a work of science fiction but scientists at University of California Berkeley have developed a “neural dust” that can be implanted into the body, to monitor internal nerves, muscles or organs in real time.

THE POTENTIAL "BAD AND UGLY" OF SMART DUST

Since Micro-electronic machines (MEMs) can sense and communicate information in swarms like dust, it could be potentially leveraged as a mass of “ultra-miniature spy-circuits”. This in fact, was the concept in the 1972 science fiction story The Unknown by Christopher Anvil. The very idea has prompted fear of the potential of nanotechnology-gone-awry wherein self-replicating robots could consume all matter on Earth - leaving nothing behind but a “grey goo.”

That scenario may seem a little far-fetched, but what folks at University of California Berkeley are currently working on may be a bit more realistic - and alarming. They are exploring an entirely new way to study and interact with the brain. Their idea is to sprinkle electronic sensors the size of dust particles into the cortex and to interrogate them remotely using ultrasound. The ultrasound also powers this so-called neural dust. One of the authors, Michel Maharbiz, has already leveraged this technology and developed the world’s first remotely controlled beetle. Are we next? Mind-reading via Smart Dust? Mind control via Smart Dust?  It has been reported that other countries are also currently investing large efforts is the research of Smart Dust technology. This of course has raised concerns within the United States and other countries. Is it possible that countries could sprinkle difficult to detect smart dust into the huge amount of food products or electronics or the various forms of merchandise that are shipped from country to country? It gives one pause.

FINAL THOUGHTS

As we have seen, Smart Dust devices are wireless microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that can detect everything from light to vibrations - with the potential of extraordinary capabilities.  However, some of the applications mentioned in this article are still limited by technological maturity. As wireless evangelist Nick Hunn has commented that the Smart Dust concept is a “very beguiling one” he adds that it has “a whole set of practical issues” of which the greatest is power. However, as we continually observe, technology moves at enormous velocity. The future of viable Smart Dust technologies and its uses, both good and nefarious, may be closer than we imagine.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/internet-things-smart-dust-you-risk-william-collins-jr-

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The basic idea behind Smart Dust is that you could drop thousands of tiny sensors over a landscape and create an ad hoc wireless sensor network where there isn't one already. Moreover, you can do it in a way that has almost no perceivable footprint (so you can imagine that most of the funding toward this work is coming from military folks, right?).

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog583/node/77

Smart Dust’ is a term you’d expect to hear in a Mission Impossible movie or Michael Crichton’s 2003 novel Prey. It conjures up images of the unthinkable, technology so small and so intricate that it could be anywhere and everywhere and turn absolutely anything into a digitally recognised substance. Surprisingly, it’s been around for a long time.

http://www.idgconnect.com/abstract/25810/smart-dust-a-revolution-blowing-wind

THE LATEST IN MIND MANIPULATION TECHNOLOGY: NEURAL SMART DUST…?

https://gizadeathstar.com/2016/08/latest-mind-manipulation-technology-neural-smart-dust/

Was this next on their list after they removed the majority of us?

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