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The 'spooky action at a distance' that once unnerved Einstein may be on its way to being as pedestrian as the gyroscopes that currently measure acceleration in smartphones. The "spooky action at a ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We not only live in a world of billions of smartphones, but we now also live in a world of sensors, soon to number in the trillions. As ...