Other projects will include a network of sensors to monitor air quality, traffic flow, water supply and other parameters.

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Since stocks are worth more, people might spend more, and that would create supply shortages, labor bottlenecks, traffic jams, road rage, ulcers and who knows what else.

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The big idea: putting sensors everywhere that communicate in a mesh network and allow real-time tracking and optimization of everything from traffic to the power grid to the water supply.

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Miles Young, owner of M2commerce LLC, an online office-supply retailer in Atlanta, also has seen a big decline in traffic to his business's website, down 50% after the Google move.

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