Things of Internet

First of all: Thanks for the beer Ted! T’was awesome! Had a great time with everybody, debating and what not.

Anyway, Internet of Things eh?

"The Internet of Things brings many vectors together — pervasive networks, the miniaturization of networked devices, mobile communication, the refashioning of physical space as we cohabit and co-occupy space with Things. When the network that has facilitated a profound, unprecedented knitting together of complex, multi-valent social formations seeps into a space — the physical, geospatial world — which was previously void of such, what does it all mean?"(Bleeker, 2006, p9-10)

Yes, whoop de doo basil, but what does it all mean?"

I’m one of those people who believe that an iRobot sort of world is in store for us in the future. A future where we advanced things as far as they could go and we are eventually controlled by networking devices, all humanity woll be gone.

Too morbid? Sorry...
If we got this sort of tech out into third world countries and remote communities, we wouldn’t need volunteers and mercenaries to go back and forth I suppose. There could be regular shipment with exactly what these people need, with realtime updates with algorithms that could calculate disaster.

This sort of tech would have been awesome for the Japanese Tsunami that happened recently. There is definitely potential. But will it get there.

I feel like it will the Upper class move further away from the middle and lower classes, and the gap that it’s also quite large will become even larger. I feel like it will become the lazy alternative, no-one will want to go out anymore, just order in thai via a website and watch a movie through foxtel box office or something.

Also, if you don’t have time to do your groceries then you’re working too hard, simple as. Chillax hombre, sit down and have a cold beer...actually your fridge ordering beers to your house would be awesome.

But that’s not my point. I’m sort of apprehensive as to where this tech will lead us.

I think the only way I’d participate is if all my ‘things’ could have the voice of C3PO, and his humour :D.

Later dudes

Bleecker, J. (2006) 'Why Things Matter: A Manifesto for networked objects' [URL: http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/files/WhyThingsMatter.pdf]