The 200 most central autonomous systems are listed in an index which gives their location on the map grid.
Credit: semilattice.net
In the evolving conversation about the “Internet of Things” — the growth of networked everyday objects and the data they generate — analysts tend to focus on business opportunity, or the security risks, or the potential for making our cities smarter.
But larger than all of those possibilities, and of key public importance, is the impact of the Internet of Things on politics.
This might sound unlikely at first, and it won’t be felt right away. But it’s important to realize that when we look at the Internet of Things, we’re seeing a technology, or rather a technological system, that will not just pose challenges for governments, but change them completely. In all of history, there has never been anything like the constant and intimate feedback loop that the Internet of Things is creating between citizens and […]
I think the invention of the printing press was a comparable one. That one may have been enlightening. I am much more pessimistic about the Internet: I fear its educational potential has reached its peak and will degenerate into amusement, just as happened to television, for example.
It’s possible the author drank the cool-aid. The Moguls of the Valley have been rubbing their crotches over the IOT for some years now without noticeable effect. Anything that’s connected can be hacked and turned to nefarious use. They are ignoring the fact that many consumers can hardly pay for their health insurance much less upgrade all the stuff in their houses so they can be hyper-connected. What people do certainly means more than what they say, and what they do is influenced by their state of consciousness at any point in time, and that state is partly the sum of all inputs. So maybe consciousness matters more than devices.