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Why the Internet Needs Cognitive Protocols

Posted by Soulskill on from the if-my-toaster-ever-tweets-i-will-throw-it-out-the-window dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We keep hearing that the 'Internet of Things' is coming – that day when we'll all have not just smart phones but also smart refrigerators, smart alarm clocks, and smart roads and bridges. A new article in IEEE Spectrum magazine makes the argument that this won't happen unless engineers do some serious rethinking of how the Internet's basic routing architecture works. The author, Anthony Liotta, offers some interesting solutions based on two networks in the human body: the autonomic nervous system and the cognitive brain."

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  1. Serious Rethinking by intermodal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Serious rethinking is what people who think they want smart toasters need to do.

    I really don't feel the need to see every device under the sun attached to the internet. And I certainly don't want my car being tracked by smart roads and bridges. It's bad enough that they're already using license plate cameras to track us all.

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  2. Why? by Jmc23 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    My 'dumb' router is never going to decide my fridge needs to route through china to send my grocery list to my phone. He complains about the slowness of lookup tables but somehow AI is going to tax routers less?

    Is this why he's a professor teaching networking and not a network engineer?

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  3. Re:Obligatory Terminator reference by profplump · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I want my fridge to know what I have so that I literally never have to think about buying food again. It tracks what I use an orders more. Someone drops it off at my door and I put it back in the fridge. I *can* do all of that manually, but there's no benefit to my participation so I'd rather have the free time and brain power to spend on something else. And the fridge can actually do it better than me, because it can look at use rates and determine if an order for more milk is required today or if it could wait until Thursday when I'll also be out of bread.

    And that's just one example with one appliance; I could sit here all day and name more. It's fine if you don't want to do those things, but it's ridiculous to pretend that no benefits exists, and that no one else is interested. Your lack of imagination and/or interest does not define society.

  4. Re:Obligatory Terminator reference by 0123456 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would I let my appliance choose my grocery provider?

    Because, based on current tech trends, it will be totally locked down and unable to order from anyone else? Or, at least, it will take a 30% cut of everything you buy.

  5. Re:Obligatory Terminator reference by the+phantom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or in a sealed baggie in the tank. You wouldn't want a random house guest to leave you without TP.

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