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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Does the Market Really Want 'Smart Meter Version 2.0'?

Daily Bell

New Arm chips herald 'Internet of things' ... New processors from Arm Holdings use so little power they could allow a new generation of connected devices, from credit cards to light bulbs. Tiny chips could mean even credit cards can be connected to the internet ... The chips, just 1mm by 1mm and powered by tiny batteries, will drive the so-called 'Internet of things', Cambridge- based Arm Holdings hopes. It anticipates uses across lighting, motor cars and a range of other devices that use new sensors. Many companies are investing machine-to-machine communications, but new processors are required if they are not to consumer significantly more power. Arm's will sell for less than 20p each, it is expected, and last for years on a single charge. Some analysts expect 60 billion connected devices to be active by 2020. Vint Cerf, one of the founders of the internet, has raised the prospect, for instance, of wine corks incorporating chips so they can alert owners to the best time for wine to be drunk, or raise the alarm if they are opened without the owner's knowledge. – UK Telegraph

Dominant Social Theme: Ain't technology grand? It's what the market wants.

Free-Market Analysis: All right, here we go. Smart Meters aren't doing so well these days. But it turns out, like the soldiers hitting the beach on D-Day, there are troops in reserve. The "free market" rolls on, as we can see from this report in the UK Telegraph.

Is all as it seems? (Is that ever the case?) We find this to be yet more evidence of a certain kind of elite dominant social theme. The power elite that we cover regularly uses these themes – fear-based promotions – to frighten Western middle classes into giving up power and wealth to specially created globalist institutions.

One of the biggest such memes is the idea that the "free market" itself is "demanding" certain technologies that are useful to the elites in their quest for ever-closer global governance.
We can see a primitive version of this approach when it comes to, say, GM: "Government Motors." Intimidated and dispirited, GM's top execs were bullied into focusing closely on "Green" electronic cars. How's that going for them? Well ... last we looked, they'd shut down their leading automotive brand, the Volt, due to lack of demand.