At the Internet of Things conference, where I've been this week, market enthusiasm is high. Proponents foresee a thousand potentially connected in each home, and a million outside the home in each city. Do the math: in the U.S. there are 125,600,000 homes, and 19,509 cities. That equals a potential of 144,109,000,000 connected devices. Dream or nightmare?
It's the customary hype around new technology: the analysts predict that. In five years, blah,blah blah, and then all the players assume their…
At the Internet of Things conference, where I've been this week, market enthusiasm is high. Proponents foresee a thousand potentially connected in each home, and a million outside the home in each city. Do the math: in the U.S. there are 125,600,000 homes, and 19,509 cities. That equals a potential of 144,109,000,000 connected devices. Dream or nightmare?
It's the customary hype around new technology: the analysts predict that. In five years, blah,blah blah, and then all the players assume their…