The Internet of things

telecommatt | October 20, 2008

In doing so, the internet of things promises to reshape our lives as fundamentally as the introduction of the railway, but with less public consent or even debate about its arrival. Before it does arrive, perhaps we could spare a moment to think what it might mean. As one day in the future you might even get assigned your own unique IP number. By then, of course, it will be too late to complain.

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk

The net shapes up to get physical

just as many of us are getting to grips with its second stage, the mobile
internet, very few are prepared - perhaps even aware - of the third and
potentially most revolutionary phase of all: the internet of things

Sometime between now and 2010, the internet is poised to reach beyond virtual
space and take root in the physical world. According to many futurist thinkers,
almost every object you can see around you carries the possibility of being
connected to the internet. This means that your domestic appliances, your
clothes, the books on your shelves and your car in the driveway may one day soon
be assigned a unique IP address, just as both computers and web pages are
assigned them today, to enable them to talk to each other.

Whatever it happens to be, we can IP-enable it.”

every human on the planet could have a personal network the size of the today’s
inter

Already in Japan cows

wireless RFID chips beneath their skin

Farmers can now track their livestock