IoT, the Infrastructure of the Future

IoT, the Infrastructure of the Future

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I was talking with my new LinkedIn acquaintance, the stimulating John Ryan and he got me thinking again about IoT. As an amatuer futurist, I'm going to take a look at these topics dozens of times in my life. 

The world will never be the same, after IoT. It's simply a huge project that can only be fully operated by AI forms that far surpass us in abilities, networking and processing power. 

The fabled future of autonomous AI being an intrinsic part of our lives is coming, and IoT is that infrastructure & anatomy of big data sensors. Nodes in the future of how the virtual world is hardwired into the physical world. By the time deep learning 'matures' into AI systems that can self-learn and self-replicate better learners, this infrastructure will have trillions of data points and a fully hybrid human-AI system.

 Gartner back in 2014, predicted that the autonomous system is indeed the last stage in how organizations mature along periods of the information age.

The future is in the womb and we keep seeing signs of the baby kicking.

As digital business models move into more advanced kinds of automation, enterprise is indeed going to become more autonomous. What this means is a human transformation into a transhumanist and post-human way of life is not only inevitable, it's within our lifetime:

  • Human augmentation
  • Hybrid human/AI forms of collective intelligence
  • Group think Revolution
  • Quantum computing
  • Brain-computer interfaces
  • Virtual personal assistants
  • Virtual social media layer with fully integrated elements of gamification
  • Smart advisors
  • Rise of drones and robots in society (labour force, couriers, customer service)
  • Augmented reality
  • Holographic displays
  • Software defined anything
  • Complex event processing
  • Content analytics that is fully pervasive

 

The billions of sensors will allow the physical world to be monitored and to become "intelligent" like never before. Everything is and will be measured, in an intimate web of information. Well, what did we expect? It's called the information age for a reason.

While scientists create movements to stop the development of automated weapon systems, in some countries it's too late, they already exist.  While the top minds worry about how AI could indeed go rogue and flip terminator style, the moral implications for humanity aside, AI is inevitable and coming quickly into our lives. How we choose to adapt is fully in our control, well in part. 

Cisco estimates by 2020, there will be 75 billion internet-connected objects. How much Big data is that? Well, by 2020, that should amount to about 44 trillion gigs. To say the 2020s will be interesting, is an understatement. So enjoy your "freedom" while you can, we still live in the human era for a few more years.

No one takes the hype seriously, but those in the field know what I'm talking about. This will also mean business insights, human layoffs and increased profits and efficiency. This will mean irrevocable changes in society that will transform cities and how we operate.

The data that will be generated by the internet of everything (IoE), which encompasses both P2P and M2P and M2M connections, will by 2018, be 403ZB, already a huge increase from today's standards. Each year, is thus a giant leap towards an autonomous age. The information age has stages that we will be progressing through, much like how centuries of progress appeared in history, we will be experiencing in decades or even faster. Are you making preparations on how to keep up?

Are you an entrepreneurial minded person, ready to tap into these changes and help them drive forwards? Can your business offer services that taps into the IoT? It's estimated that IoT will be a $11.1 trillion dollar industry by 2025.  This leads to increased digitization and virtualization of our society and culture.

 

  • Remote monitoring in health care
  • Smart CRM (instantaneous customer analysis and real-time tracking)
  • Easy exchange of sales data
  • Cheaper, greener manufacturing
  • MDM (remote mobile device management)
  • Time management
  • Increased complexity of device management
  • Perfected tracking, monitoring and specialized analytics
  • Profiling and predictive analytics
  • Sentiment analysis and new levels of consumer manipulation
  • Wearable tech that interacts with environment constantly
  • Self-regulating devices (self-diagnosis, repair, upgrade)
  • Predictive social media
  • Algorithms that train and follow customers through their life-cycles in different interactions

 

Can you see the world changing? What do you make of IoT's future impact?

 I will leave you with some images you can skim quickly, that might impress to you the significance of this development. 

 

 

 Note: This number keeps being revised up!

9 proposed settings IoT will set up shop in an interface near you!

 

 Try to see the big picture and how this will impact everything, even developing nations will have the opportunity to fully participate in this transformation. 

  • What's the most significant impact of IoT in your business and to your company or job in the next 10 years? Please share this article if you have found it stimulating. 

 

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 Michael Spencer is a prolific copywriter, blogger and digital marketing enthusiast, to read more of his articles click on the following footer: 

Mario Huard

Change Manager & Agile Coach Expert en adoption du changement Passez rapidement de la planification à l'action

9 年

IoT is presented as a miracle pill face a big movement. IoT seems be the solution all our ills. But we know that the IoT has a huge potential, but we know than we still have many barriers to cross before reaching viable solutions. I think we are at the stage of the test (beta-testing). It is for this reason that in my posts yesterday I called people to take a slight break of theories and speculations of the potential of IoT. Come see a little on the ground and we can improve our assumptions. SHOW ME!

Paul Croubalian

Indie apps, Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows, and Web. I like finding the pain points and taking them away. Full-Stack Dev

9 年

Much as I like your article, Michael, I still find myself confused by the whole thing. I have difficulty wrapping my brain around why things need to connect. I guess I'll need to dig deeply into use cases.

John Ryan

Mentor, Former Data Scientist /AI Researcher at HP now at Aquana Fish Farms

9 年

Of course I had to like this post, I'm in it. But I want to point out two trends that are missing. 1) The Ethereum project launched yesterday. So if you think software defined everything is going to change the way we do business wait until you wrap your head around Bitcoin defined everything. Right now trust is hierarchical but that model is not scalable so we will have to define a no-one-privileged-trust architecture. 2) The death of the datacenter. The data center is going to be in the Internet of Things. Why because its easier to move the analysis to the data than the data to the analysis. How will you get access to the data - a Bitcoin like contract.

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