Word: embedded
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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So many appliances, vehicles and buildings will be online by 2020 that it seems likely there will be more things on the Internet than people. Internet-enabled cars and airplanes are coming online, and smart houses are being built every day. Eventually, programmable devices will become so cheap that we...
Before I do, though, let's briefly digress to try to understand how this happened. After Microsoft introduced Windows 98, it became the practice to embed all kinds of Net functionality into programs. For instance, live links to websites suddenly became commonplace in e-mail; if you were reading a...