What you won't hear McGovern boast about is the telematics (GPS and other interactive systems) monitor that hides in the center console, or the paddle-control automatic transmission shifter that resides on the steering column.

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When all the equipment in a building is fully networked and interactive, when building systems can react to internal and external changes and demands to traffic, pricing and preferences, and to safety threats and hazards--all effortlessly, seamlessly and, critically, in the background, in ways facilities' managers and homeowners will tolerate--true intelligence and true efficiency will have arrived to the chaotic building sector.

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To do this, we need to invest in systems - software and resources that create and deliver engaging interactive courses, monitor use, effectiveness and engagement in new ways and share that information with teachers and educators.

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FlashLinq-enabled televisions, laptops, in-car infotainment systems, etc. could all be used to create a discoverable network of interactive goodness, but of course, it's hard to say how much success Qualcomm will have in a world already loaded down with connectivity options.

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In an era of interactive television cables, the growth of computer checking and check-out counters, of security systems and telephones, all lodged together in computers, it would be relatively easy at some point to give a profile of a person and tell what they buy in a store, what kind of food they like, what sort of television programs they watch.

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