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C.S. and the City
Intel’s Eric Paulos and the edges of urban computing.
There’s a bomb inside Eric Paulos’ storage space. It’s not your typical homebrew explosive, though. This is an information bomb. If you happen to walk by when Paulos fires it off, you may not even notice right away. But your wristwatch will probably stop. Your credit cards certainly will no longer be readable. Your cellphone will instantly become a paperweight. Carrying a laptop computer? Hopefully, you have a recent backup. With the press of a single button, the I-Bomb unleashes a powerful electromagnetic pulse that kills electronic devices and corrupts all storage media within several meters.
Paulos has demonstrated the I-Bomb at places like the ...
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