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One of the leading thinkers in the new computing sector known as the internet of Things (IoT) can't help but look at all the flashy, expensive, feature-packed gadgets on the market today – things like Google Glass or the Apple Watch – and keep coming away with the same thought: too many device makers keep getting it wrong.
Given the nature of his chosen field, serial entrepreneur David Rose – who's also a researcher with the MIT Media Lab, where he's taught for six years – might be expected to want the next generation of connected devices to pick up where smartphones leave off. Indeed, that seems to be the nature of the race to figure out what the next dominant computing platform looks like, whether it's Facebook snatching up Oculus or Microsoft working to bring its HoloLens to fruition.
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In a book he published last year, Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire and the Internet of Things, Rose sums up his hope for the future of technology: he wants it be dominated less by glass slabs and more by tools and artefacts, just like his grandfather's space was filled with.His grandfather, for example, never hunted for the one tool to serve as an all-purpose tool hub or for a tool that would eliminate the need for other tools. His shop was filled with hammers, screwdrivers, wrenches, clamps and more – and they all enchanted the young Rose because even in their simplicity, those tools could lead to a multiplicity of imaginative creations.
The Internet of Things could also, beyond proving a privacy debacle, be a walled garden whose walls reach to infinity.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Freeman on Thursday July 16 2015, @10:37PM
There are various reasons why I don't want my Zipper tweeting. I'm sure there are a number of reasons why that I haven't considered as well. Though, mostly, because it's dumb. #1 Reason why it won't take off? It adds extra cost to an item for negligible or untrackable reward.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2015, @10:44PM
Plus, you can't turn it off.
(Score: 2) by soylentsandor on Friday July 17 2015, @12:42PM
Nah, that's just when they get it wrong. When done right, you add value by following these simple steps:
And presto! You've just created a status symbol and thus the crap will fly off the shelves, no problem*.
Bonus points if you can make it feel and/or look outdated within no more than two years.
*) Provided Joe Sixpack can afford it