MIT’s amazing new app lets you program any object — from fastcodesign.com by John Brownlee
The Reality Editor is a Minority Report style AR app that makes programming your smart home as easy as connecting the dots.
Foresight 2020: The future is filled with 50 billion connected devices — from ibmbigdatahub.com by Erin Monday
Excerpt:
By 2020, there will be over 50 billion connected devices generating continuous data.
This figure is staggering, but is it really a surprise? The world has come a long way from 1992, when the number of computers was roughly equivalent to the population of San Jose. Today, in 2015, there are more connected devices out there than there are human beings. Ubiquitous connectivity is very nearly a reality. Every day, we get a little closer to a time where businesses, governments and consumers are connected by a fluid stream of data and analytics. But what’s driving all this growth?
Why The Internet of Things will drive a Knowledge Revolution. — from linkedin.com by David Evans
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As these machines inevitably connect to the Internet, they will ultimately connect to each other so they can share, and collaborate on their own findings. In fact, in 2014 machines got their own ”World Wide Web” called RoboEarth, in which to share knowledge with one another. …
The implications of all of this are at minimum twofold:
- The way we generate knowledge is going to change dramatically in the coming years.
- Knowledge is about to increase at an exponential rate.
What we choose to do with this newfound knowledge is of course up to us. We are about to face some significant challenges at scales we have yet to experience.