When I was part of the team that created www.ibm.com, we tracked where people went after they viewed the homepage. The answer in most cases was “somewhere else.” Those who visited exhibited “touch and go” behavior. I was tasked with making the site stickier, and one of my responses was producing the first Web pages … Leer más
Last time I imagined things taking to the air, and I closed with the implications of a murmuration of birds. My intent was to make this post highly speculative, marching through potential applications for robotic birds and insects, and ending with smart dust. I’m still speculative, but I’m going to focus particularly on smart insects, … Leer más
Think like a bird. Think in three dimensions. Think of what it means to sense, connect, share, and act up and out as much as forward and back and side to side.
Devices invading our bodies may sound frightening, but not to those who depend upon them to keep their blood sugars steady and their hearts beating. Still, just as surely as rfid tags used to pay road tolls and the gps on our smart phones have provided records of our travels to third parties (like advertisers and governments), our medical data will be stored beyond our reach, aggregated, and possibly commoditized.
You are the final frontier for the Internet of Things (IoT). Imagine tattoos or pills that populate your body with nanoscale sensors and actuators. These devices would travel to key areas of your body and provide a constant stream of data on blood sugar level, hormones, oxygen exchange, blood pressure, heart rate – virtually any … Leer más
What does it mean when the Internet of things comes home? I’ve been contemplating the idea of a domestic version of RFID shipping, something I call electronic caddies. We already have ships and trucks that use RFID labels (often with the addition of barcodes) to inventory and track cargo. Imagine doing the same for your suitcase before a trip.
I think nuance, especially in terms of understanding humans, is an important lens for understanding Big Data opportunities. Often, the way we indicate intent, perspective, value, and interest is implicit. It’s also individual, which is why people who have known each other over decades often pick up on cues that are invisible to everyone else.
If you have ever surrendered your computer to a techie via a program like TeamViewer, you have had the wonderful/disturbing experience of seeing your system taken over, searched, interrogated, and fixed.
Piensa en todas las cosas que hace tu coche como respuesta a estímulos electrónicos y físicos. Lo básico: arranca. Cambia de marcha. Cambia de dirección. Cambia de velocidad. Frena. Además, abre y cierra las ventanas y las puertas. Hace circular aire caliente y frío. Se encienden los intermitentes y suenan. Los asientos y los espejos se ajustan.
Vivimos en el mundo de la información. Los seres humanos elaboramos gran parte de ella o, como mínimo, pasa por nuestras manos. Los cajeros de los supermercados escanean códigos de barras. Los biólogos etiquetan especies en peligro de extinción. Los operadores de divisas registran decisiones de compra y venta. Sin embargo, según nos vamos adentrando en el mundo del Internet de las cosas, cada vez más información de la que recopilamos, procesamos, evaluamos y utilizamos proviene de sistemas automatizados.
El Internet de las cosas solo cumplirá sus promesas de mejorar la logística, advertirnos de peligros medioambientales, personalizar nuestras experiencias y demás si una amplia variedad de sensores inunda nuestro mundo. Todo esto ya está ocurriendo.
