Bruce Sterling

The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things

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  • Дмитрий Безугловhas quoted8 years ago
    The real problem with this scenario is that the reader thinks he’s the hero of the story.
  • ektkiselevahas quoted10 years ago
    People in the Internet of Things are like the woolly livestock of a feudal demesne, grazing under the watchful eye of barons in their hilltop Cloud Castles.
  • Niels Ørbæk Christensenhas quoted5 years ago
    It follows that most “things” are too humble and common to use the elaborate, aristocratic protocol of the Internet of Things. Lesser things have come to make do with alien protocols that use less electricity, such as MQTT, XMPP and DDS. These unruly “things” are like Balkan peasants muttering Albanian and Croat when their lords and masters want them to speak classical Latin
  • Roma Moskalenkohas quoted6 years ago
    The Internet of Things is not a monolithic, one-party surveillance empire. Instead, it amends the old-fashioned internet slogan of “Information wants to be free” to a new, more politically pointed, “Information about you wants to be free to us”
  • Roma Moskalenkohas quoted6 years ago
    Voting isn’t enough; suing isn’t enough; buying isn’t enough; even using isn’t enough. Instead, there’s this other, emergent form of networked struggle
  • Roma Moskalenkohas quoted6 years ago
    I don’t recite these colourful and spiteful quarrels merely to scold the participants. They’re not small struggles, they’re epic struggles, although they differ radically from struggles of a normal political or economic kind, with cash, or votes, or lawsuits
  • Roma Moskalenkohas quoted6 years ago
    Microsoft calls its efforts at the Internet of Things “The Internet of Your Things”. That slogan was deliberately chosen to insinuate that Google’s Internet of Things is, in fact, a sinister mass of Google’s things
  • Roma Moskalenkohas quoted6 years ago
    “Knifing the baby” means deliberately appropriating the work of start-ups before they can become profitable businesses. “Stealing the oxygen” means seeing to it that markets don’t even exist – that no cash exchanges hands, while that formerly profitable activity is carried out on a computer you control
  • Roma Moskalenkohas quoted6 years ago
    The Internet of Things doesn’t want to electrify or automate because that work, for better or worse, is mostly done now. Basically, it wants to “electronically automate through digital surveillance by wireless broadband
  • Roma Moskalenkohas quoted6 years ago
    People never voted to become electrical or automated. Those processes came from a rough consensus among the political and managerial classes of the developed nations: “we must electrify, we must automate
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