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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: 3, Interesting) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday July 16 2015, @11:15PM
some parts of iot are a fad.
some parts are just a marketer's wet dream. and everyone else who wants to mine your info.
but for some of us in the field (I consider myself more of an outlier) don't buy into the cloud and our iot 'things' just talk to each other and -benefit- the end user.
clouds suck. I hate clouds. so many things I could have done but the cloud shit got in my way.
iot used to be called m2m (machine to machine). in that model, there was no cloud, per se. the marketing pukes, yet again, are stealing a good idea and fucking it up.
the notion of things being *safely* connected, in a controlled manner, is great. great things can happen. but add marketing fucks and you get what you know you'll get.
there needs to be some shake-up so that iot does not imply cumulous crapola. it would be a shame if we throw out good ideas because the thieves want even more of our data than they already have.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."