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posted by janrinok on Thursday July 16 2015, @10:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-all-a-bit-meh dept.

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, Insightful) by Hartree on Thursday July 16 2015, @11:29PM

    by Hartree (195) on Thursday July 16 2015, @11:29PM (#210233)

    "Do you REALLY want thirty devices in your home, all of which must be routinely updated and scanned for malware?"

    Only if you are the one making money from the software update and malware protection racket... I mean service.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @09:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @09:29AM (#210358)

    Do you REALLY want thirty devices in your home, all of which must be routinely updated and scanned for malware?

    Do you really think anyone would be so foolish as to have an internet of things running on Windows? Go back and read "The Road Ahead". There is no internet in it. Microsoft is for standalone non-networked appliances only. You know, like mobile phones.