Editing Mesh (section)

=== Spimes ===
Along with the accumulated data of transhuman affairs, the mesh is also cluttered with information derived from untold numbers of wireless-capable sensor-enabled devices that continuously update the mesh with their location, sensor recordings, and other data. Colloquially called “spimes,” these location-aware, environment-aware, self-logging, self-documenting objects broadcast their data to anyone who cares to listen. Since visual, auditory, and other sensors are absurdly tiny and inexpensive, they are ubiquitously incorporated into nearly every object or product a person might wear, apply, use, or internalize. This allows almost any user to reach out through the mesh and gather environmental data and ambient sensor recordings from a specific location (or at least public locales—private areas typically block such signals or slave them to a local AI that filters their output).