The Internet of Stuff

The so-called "Internet of Things" is coming.  Coming fast.

What does that mean?  It means that we have enough available network capacity (if we want) to say enormous amounts of things about nearly all stuff.

So, here's another idea--software as a service--SAAS.  It turns out that airlines don't see themselves as airplane companies.  Airplanes are a tool for them.  They would like to rent their tools. So if each thingamabob on a jet engine can "tell" the network when it is feeling poorly, the engine company doesn't sell engines any more...it sells engine time; air hours in flight over the Atlantic. And thus Virgin doesn't need to take care of engines anymore; they can design lounges and do the stuff they think is cool and will enhance the customer experience while Rolls Royce does Internet of things-based SAAS to Virgin in the form of engine hours for sale.

Phew.  Crazy.

Who needs their own driverless car?  No one.  Who needs parking spaces?  Why are things distributed in country if they don't need cheap parking and cash and carry?  What happens when the delivery van is a robot and gives you a screen to select your delivery time and then makes it optimised by software?  The answer is...internet of stuff.

Everything from your milk delivery to your packages to your kids' backpacks will soon be vying to talk to you.

Your appliance for that interaction will be a range of devices, maybe even a virtual space inside a pair of goggles. That's all less than 6 years away.  How does it change you?  How does it change your place?