The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things

First of all, The Internet of Things© is not about “things on the internet” as such. A world in which all our household gadgets can communicate with each other may sound vaguely useful, but it’s not really for us consumers. SF author and science geek Bruce Sterling posits that the Internet of Things© meme is an idea that just won’t go away because there’s too much money to be made and too much command & control made possible.