FutureCurious Times 2017 Times | Page 15

Article : internet of things Do machine mothers know best? We’ve spent the last 30 years putting ourselves on line and becoming discoverable, it’s now our machines turn. J ust like social media allows us to find each other across time and place, to interact, to discover, to speak, to listen, to inform, to engage, to transact, to query, to learn, to guide, to orchestrate, to announce, to follow and to lead, it’s now time for our machines to be able to do the same. We are on the cusp of a revolution that will once again change everything we know about being human, having information, searching, communicating and connecting and the term for this is the Internet of Things (IoT) or Internet of Everything (IoE), but for me it’s Social Machines and Machine Mothering. In the brave new world of today, the sum total of past human data and knowledge which is already discoverable on the internet, and growing exponentially, will be