Pervasive Networking

From my understanding, pervasive networking is the ability for many computers or digital devices to work together to improve the usefulness and abilities of the device. Essentially, it is the fact that instead of there being one device per user there are now a network of "invisible" devices networked together in order to deliver information to one user. Good examples of pervasive networking would be BitTorrent. This technology works by having many different users sharing small parts of a whole file. Many simultaneous connections allows the file to be downloaded bit by bit until the downloader has the entire file. Pervasive networking also includes the means by which all of these devices communicate together, such as routers, WiFi, or Bluetooth. Connecting a mobile phone to a computer or two computers together via Bluetooth to share information between the two would be a small scale example of pervasive networking. The further development of pervasive networking will allow more and more devices to connect and share information and make everyday life more seamlessly integrated together digitally. It is hard for me to imagine how much more can be done since it seems like everything can already be networked together from cell phones to video game consoles and televisions, but like all technology it will continue to improve and become faster.