Tom. Wow! You have a different perspective on IoT and I would like to share it with others before the Hamfest presentation. Maybe, we should have a discussion session after the presentation by Dr. Sanchez-Sinencio about the potential implications of IoT on our lives. Other issues we need to discuss are security and privacy when everything is connected to everything.
Nizar -----Original Message----- From: Tom M. Morton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2:37 PM To: Nizar Mullani Subject: IoT Nizar: I enjoyed running into you and Linda at lunch today. Thanks for making me aware of "IoT" and Professor Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio, who is scheduled to talk at the GHHF. I have been thinking of this for a few years now, and I am glad it has a name now. It looks like soon everything will be talking to everything and everybody and we humans will be relegated to walking around in a WiFi fog that is connected to the cloud. After all fog is a cloud that is on the ground. We won't have to be "chipped" so the government can keep track of us, everything in our pockets, our clothes, our cars, our houses and even our trash cans will create an identity of us in the cloud that now will extend to the ground as a WiFi fog that will follow us wherever we go. Three big problems face us. First: where is it all going. What monster will be created when all the current technologies mature and are interconnected? Second: will man be able to control it? Third: obviously there will be a very few who understand the technology. By definition they will control it and the people of the world dependent on it. Gee, I hope they are good people and wield their power benevolently...Nah, absolute power has never been benevolent. I look forward to talking about this some more next time we meet. Bring your fog lights! Tom _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
