readwriteweb.com — "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it." HAL; 2001: A Space Odyssey Editor's note: this is a longer version of ReadWriteWeb Editor-in-chief Richard MacManus' article for the SAY Media newsletter. The newsletter is delivered weekly and features SAY Media's take on media, culture, venn diagrams and the occasional Kubrick homage. You can sign up for it here. Over half of all devices at this year's CES, the world's largest consumer electronics trade show, were Internet connected. Nearly 60% of those were non-traditional computing devices such as TVs, cars, refrigerator
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skinturtleFeb 3, 2012
whats the good of it if all the government plans on doing is censoring it...and it just being a place where the only thing that's allowed is advertising to your brain.
jaketyson85Feb 4, 2012
this whole censor thing is blown out of proportion. the only people who stand to lose are pirates, and i'm not talkin the jonny depp kind!
termousadkaFeb 4, 2012
In the physical world, place matters. The final destination of connectedness, I think, is not one in which many devices are connected to the Internet, but one in which almost all objects are connected to one another (and then maybe eventually connected to a device connected to the internet). Along the lines of jars connected to shelves connected to light fixtures connected to the home server/router/internet gateway connected to the Internet connected to our smartphone adding things to our shopping list.
The implications, I think, will be much wider than tweeting our Spotify playlist from our car.
user2837Feb 4, 2012
With the rapid rise of the internet, was this article really that much of a surprise?
fadderlyFeb 3, 2012
this is great. and it excites the hell out of me, but how bout we get some coast to coast AFFORDABLE wi-fi going?!?!?