The Density of Networking
	2002: 10,000 network connections

It's reasonable to expect that there are ten thousand network connections in the MIT Media Lab alone. But this does NOT mean that there will be ten thosand workstations or PCs in the building. The model of one person / one computer / one network connection no longer holds.

Instead, we'll see an entirely new category of "everyday objects" connected to networks. Computers, certainly, but clocks, thermostats, appliances, even lowly light switches will be networked. And the density of connections will increased by several orders of magnitude.

What's required to make a network that will support this kind of density?