Remember the year 2000? I do. We expended time and effort to reassure business partners that we had made preparations to prevent all our systems from crashing at one second past midnight on New Year’s Eve 1999. We even had high-tech shorthand: Y2K. (Y2K – get it?) Today, we would expect a logo and theme music as well. All because the tech-wizards in whose genius we relied, didn’t know the year 2000 was coming. Guess what? They’re back. The subsequent tech generation is unleashing the Internet of Things. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
The Internet of Things will control your home, and your life. “Things” include appliances, lights, heating and air conditioning, et cetera. Teenage hackers in their parents’ basement will be able to mess up your washing machine . And you can have commercials on your oven. You think you have no privacy now? Those new electronic gadgets are monitoring everything you say. How else would they know to respond to “Alexa” or “OK?” Of course we all know that Amazon and Google have no interest in exploiting your personal information.
If you want to read what non-advocates have to say, take a look at twitter.com/internetofshit.
