What Happens To Privacy When The Internet Is In Everything?
From the Techcrunch website:
Jan 25, 2015 by Natasha Lomas
Excerpt:
This week Google”s Eric Schmidt was on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he suggested that the future Internet will be, in one sense, invisible “” because it will be embedded into everything we interact with.
“The Internet will disappear,” he predicted (via The Hollywood Reporter). “There will be so many IP addresses”so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won”t even sense it. It will be part of your presence all the time.
“Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room.”
This is not an especially outlandish forecast, given the trajectory of connected devices. Analyst Gartner calculated there were some 3.8 billion such “smart objects” in use last year, and forecast 4.9 billion this “” rising to 25 billion in circulation by 2020. (The global human population was estimated at around seven billion, at the last count.) In other words the sensornet is here, it”s just not densely (or evenly) distributed yet.
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