That is why in Colab, city halls can have their own dashboards to monitor what users are saying, forward requests to the right teams, and track their status.
Carbon dashboards have been installed throughout showing energy consumption, raising awareness and putting staff in a position to improve a building's energy performance.
And senior managers will have their "digital dashboards", showing them in real time how their business is doing.Software experts are already speculating about the way corporate IT systems will look in 20 years' time, when the "legacy" systems (the term used for old applications) will, with luck, have disappeared and EAI vendors will be history.
Similarly, the operations centres and dashboards for local governments in China being built by Cisco, IBM and others beg the question whether their only purpose is to make these cities smarter.Other deep fears brought on by smart systems is that machines could be hacked, spin out of control and even take over the world, as they did in the film "The Matrix".
Melfi has a "supplier park" of 22 firms making everything from batteries and axles to seats and dashboards.
Motorists are meant to install an electronic wallet on their dashboards.
Interspersed between them are short, curly fibres that work like tiny springs to keep the longer tufts upright while also giving a measure of cushioning.Further cushioning is provided by the base material, which is usually made of expanded polyethylene the same foamy stuff used in cars to provide shock-absorbent surfaces for dashboards and bumpers.
Ease off the accelerator and as the speedo winds down the capacitors charge up again.Such a capacitor gauge could become a common sight on the dashboards of the future.
At one point, Mr Page mocked such inflated expectations by "announcing" Google Fastfood, a button in car dashboards that delivers instantaneous hamburgers.In this section Are you being served?
Hospitals, for instance, will hardly put up with dozens of dashboards that monitor the activities of different types of equipment: they will want a unified view.
Insiders at Lehman Brothers say its European arm lacked an integrated picture of its risk position in the days running up to its demise.Whether the financial industry would have hit the brakes if it had had digital dashboards showing banks' overall exposures in real time is a moot point.
