First of all, it has to be computerized. Which means much of its functioning must be caused by the computers inside it. I was looking at the sparrows this morning, each one of which is far more intelligent, but they can not be considered smart.
The first time I was aware of this was when the Smartphone was invented. The first Phones used cellular technology and were correctly called Cell Phones. Each cell was an area covered by an antenna tower, which provided a radio coverage of about 50 miles in radius.
Soon these were springing up all over the place since many of them were necessary to provide wide coverage. The other side of this technology was a little hand-held device that you could talk and listen to. A little computer with a touch interface instead of a mouse, and a radio transmitter and receiver. It also included a digital camera. This was such an amazing combination, most people did not know what they were using. They just used it, without thinking about it.
This combination was a network, with all of its advantages. Everybody had to be on it, to talk to everybody else.
It had many computers: including a master computer that told each tower which device to talk to.
Then Apple invented the iPhone, which connected their Phone network to the Internet. Immediately every Phone network did the same, and the Smartphone was invented!
If you review the progress of this invention (which consists of many parts), you cannot help but be amazed. It should have made us smarter also.
But this does not seem to be the case.
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