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Eric Schmidt: Our Perception of the Internet Will Fade
Esra Erimez writes: Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted a change in how we perceive the internet. Schmidt says, "There will be so many IP addresses, so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won't even sense it. It will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room."
Yawn, whatever there, Eric ... more bullshit futurism about how the wealthy will live.
I don't think people really want the internet of things, and every time someone says "ZOMG, look at teh future" I mostly think they're talking out of their ass.
It makes a great sales pitch, but generally futurists are snake oil salesman and marketers claiming their pet technology will change the world, but which would require zillions of dollars and some massive fundamental changes to everything around us.
And the rest of us will have plain old lamps and sofa which aren't telling everything to Google about our daily lives.
The petty ramblings of billionaire technologists really is mostly drivel.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
And we will have all the data, he continued. People who read 1984 know that people WANTED the way it happened. They GAVE away their privacy to big brother.
Just as we are now giving it away to Google.
Unfortunately it is like giving away your virginity. You can't get it back. What is worse is that you don't have a real option. Others are giving it away in your name.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Interlocks like that should be reserved for life-safety conditions.
For example, your furnace starts spewing CO into your basement rather than sending it up the flue. Your basement should have a CO sensor with an external contact (not just an alarm), and that external contact should control a basement exhaust fan. (Alternatively, you could just turn on all of the bathroom exhaust fans in the house. It will work just as well. You'll save on installation of the basement exhaust fan, but the wiring is more difficult and requires pulling extra home-runs.)
Interlocks for "convenience" are going to simply annoy the crap out of you when they trigger under inconvenient circumstances.