Article : internet of things continued
This anticipatory world that listens
to your online searches, delves
into your diary, emails and digital
archives and blends it dynamically
with where you are, where you’re
going, what’s around you and
important to you, to intuit your
needs ahead of you even knowing
you need it, is soon to be the new
norm in our lives.
Google Now has offered glimpses of this for the past
few years. Apple recently announced similar software
for their phones. Increasingly search engines, apps,
appliances, cars, beds, houses, cities, roads and
everything around us will wake up and turn from
being passive to active and assist in anticipating what
you need and when and sharing that information
on your behalf and with your permission to others
machines, devices, apps and people so that they can
orchestrate their world to best suit your needs, timing
and requirements.
In this world your cars on-board navigation system
knows where you’re headed and who you’re going to
see and when. It is constantly scouring, in real time,
the road conditions and traffic flow and rerouting
you, all the while keeping those that you are meeting
with aware of your arrival time, whilst simultaneously
digitally watching and re-working the rest of your day
to fit in with your real-time movements.
In this world your curtains open when your feet
touch the floor in the morning for the first time. Your
bathroom light turns on 34 seconds later, the time
it usually takes you to walk from your bedroom to
the shower and the kitchen knows you’re 16 minutes
away from needing that perfect morning heart starter
whilst your car is waiting to drive itself to your front
door in 32 minutes and drive you to work.
In this world the frail, elderly and sick can maintain
a quality of life and live at home longer by being
monitored and supported by their home which is
guarding them, monitoring their health and well-being,
ensuring they are eating and taking their medications
on time and seamlessly informing loved ones and
carers of any inconsistencies and emergencies.
In today’s world this seems impossible, creepy,
unnecessary and perhaps an invasion of privacy, but
we said the same thing about the internet, banking
on-line, mobile phones, social media, radio, television,
electricity and every other invention and innovation
we have ever had and when the case is proven that
this new fandangled technology brings something
to our lives we haven’t had before, didn’t know we
needed, but now can’t live without, it usually doesn’t
take us long to move from being skeptics and critics,
to believers and eager users.
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In this world the
frail, elderly and
sick can maintain
a quality of life and
live at home longer
by being monitored
and supported by
their home which
is guarding them,
monitoring their
health and well-being,
ensuring they are
eating and taking their
medications on time.