More tinders to the fire.... I don't claim to fully understand the scope, or even the potential of this [thus far] google.ORG project, but, if Bob X. Cringely is anywhere near correct, this is indeed an electri/fied/fying trojan horse disguised as mere metering device.
» [...] Google's PowerMeter is a Trojan horse – a way to become a de facto Internet Service Provider for potentially millions of homes [that all buy electricity... it is] both an intelligent power meter AND an Internet gateway [...] « http://www.cringely.com/2009/02/power-to-the-people/ |