IoT has received tremendous attention as the transformative technology that will shape commerce, government, healthcare, infrastructure, and daily living. Forget about discrete smart devices. The intention is to immerse society in a hyperconnected intelligent fabric that not only passively absorbs information, but actively and preemptively shapes the environment.
Previous limitations in the real world like lack of visibility, restricted access, event frequency, incoherent analysis, and hostile environments often left decision makers in the dark. When circumstances would be observable, there would often be no means to respond, let alone proactively direct.
Now, IoT can address the previously unknown and enable purposeful engagement. Like all technology implementations, one should not view the potential by the early, crude manifestations. Further iterations of IoT will deliver smaller, larger, faster, and smarter detection and actuation mechanisms. Nanoscale machines open the door for applications at the threshold of the molecular and biological. Widely dispersed, networked appliances increase the context range and domain to the globe and beyond.
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