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Noun: A real life physical object with knowledge of itself.  Possesing the following characteristics: 1)Small, inexpensive means of remotely and uniquely identifying objects over short ranges; in other words, radio-frequency identification. 2)A mechanism to precisely locate something on Earth, such as a global-positioning system. 3)A way to mine large amounts of data for things that match some given criteria, like internet search engines. 4)Tools to virtually construct nearly any kind of object; computer-aided design. 5)Ways to rapidly prototype virtual objects into real ones. Sophisticated, automated fabrication of a specification for an object, through “three-dimensional printers.” 6)“Cradle-to-cradle” life-spans for objects. Cheap, effective recycling.  Spimes are objects precisely located in space and time.  They have histories. They are recorded, tracked, inventoried, and always associated with a story.  Spimes have identities, they are protagonists of a documented process.  They are searchable, like Google. You can think of Spimes as being auto-Googling objects.  (Coined by Bruce Sterling at SIGGRAPH 2004)

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