Check out this Network World article by Dave Evans, Cisco's chief futurist and chief technologist for the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group. His No. 1 pick for the “10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years”? “The Internet-of-things”, and he cites sensor networks based on 6LoWPAN and ZigBee. Read it here: http://bit.ly/pjmJSB