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Published: 2012-10-05
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaTIt1C5R-M
what my personality and my life I think remember first proposed away page and I did it using the mosaic browser the forerunner of Netscape and the first popular multimedia producer constantly amazes me when I look back and see was released only nineteen ninety three less than twenty years ago and now we have this close this digital universe of information we available to us that's according dismissing
his round about four thousand exabytes inside it's not we don't use exploits everyday come also a good analogy is that four thousand exabytes is roughly equivalent to a stack of books here to Pluto and back ET times and we all want it began to create that less than twenty years ago I just don't think of those it is it's even more astonishing but we have devices
like these which of Lois to access this digital universe information anywhere anytime I was over ninety percent of the world's land surface no having a mobile phone it is truly a global phenomenon how did this get through this if I was racking my brains trying to look at some point chief image that would just bring the whole how much this was transformed our individual lives and
our society how has the web changed I was really stolen I came across this headline two weeks ago in the Irish examiner and that for me more than anything else brought home just how much our society has changed and less than twenty years or know about to embark on the next step with the internet and the web and all the forecasts are that would make the
cordoned internet and its impact on our society look trivial we're both connect the physical world to the internet planet everything on it would become things on the internet of things I'm not just web pages about the things but there is real physical presence we can observe and control when I see things exactly what we mean by things I mean literally everything and anything the things we
encounter in our daily lives the machines and appliances we use in our jobs and at home the buildings we live in the cars we travel than even we ourselves would become part of this internet of things no as a technologist the first question I ask is how will we do that I don't care what is useful or not I just want to know how we do
have and I think as an example chair as a thing on the internet of things I want to know from anywhere in the world chair occupied who is in this not to turn this chair into a smack chair smart object in the internet of things to take a number of steps first of all I have to give it a unique identity so that I can go
to this chair as opposed to all the of the chairs in the world and it's the curtain to addressing protocol for the internet IPV six to Billy gives us unique identities without practical limit I think we can conceive of on the planet or even office that we want to put on the internet of things we were there to give a unique identity I need to give
it the ability to communicate affect her that's wireless communication these days the third step is that I need to give it senses I need to put sensors on us double tell me whether or something about the chair are good to me something about the environment around us in this case upper pressure sensor on the seat so that I know of its occupied I'm not put a
little of RFID tag reader so apart the tagged person who was sitting on it would be identified I go my smartphone anywhere in the world and I know who sitting in my chair and I do that the the final thing I can do if I have a machine or not clients or vehicle I needed to reach ocean controllers anywhere in the world and I do that
using very small and Bettis electronic circuits and they're getting smaller and cheaper every day like in a bad in this are honest no good question what exactly will we do is fuck practical use with all the speed and of releasing severely limited by our imagination we're going to take six little scenarios here this evening which I hope will begin to illustrate potential impact on our lives
and society we've been to connect with things I learned about things in a completely new way with the internet of things not only the true geek and the audience will recognize what is the public too ashamed to admit it tricorder from the original series of Star Trek captain Kirk and the lads walk up to anything anybody point a tricorder I did learn on the voters the
physical chemical composition of what was in front of them walk up to the person they're state of health with a hostile what life is when you with captain with the internet of things smart form would be calm a tricorder woke up to anything in learn mode pack of food in the supermarket its ingredients there are agents dietary allergy advice welcome to this piano who was playing
is over recent years what music was played on us Pete the new way of interacting with the world and learning about the things that you encounter you walk up to a person they've agreed to share some information might be something as simple as a business card in a social context you might learn things about their interests and their inclinations this even a it'll make Facebook likely
would look like a minor event did you ever think of just both of those to reach out and monitor things observed things let's say I have a heart problem I can wear wireless cardiac monitor the commonly used in hospitals these days but the next generation would be web thing so my smartphone which hasn't cardiac app and mothers my heart rhythms and give me a early warning
a remote hospital computer can money from a twenty four seven with powerful algorithms predict maybe weeks or even months ahead but I'm heading for a problem or I could just took my relatives see that my heart is still beating I'm with the number of people over sixty five set to double eHealth and telemedicine is going to go on the big areas for the internet of things
one of my favorites reality search engines sort of using Google just to search this four thousand exabytes of information I could really useful things like ask Google where are my keys because my keys are tagged located both objects on the internet of things where is my child and as the father of a teenage daughter I'll be first in the queue I'm a food processing company expecting
a delivery of shellfish I can not only know where the food delivery is entire storage shipping history since the moment I came on board the trawler if I know what things are doing and I can no of how things are feeling of their parameters and where they are I can better manage things no fifty one percent of the world's population now lives insist now live in
cities we need a better way to manage our cities which are quickly becoming many of them megacities if I know where vehicles are where they want to go if I know over energy is flowing into contradict where it's energy usage if I know where the citizens of my smart city are what they're up to what there has please I can better manage traffic couldn't maybe eliminate
congestion I kind of better energy efficiency make better use of renewables I can look after the individual health safety and security all my citizens I can also written because troll things now you might have read about electracard a drawing of a trial of smart meters in Ireland to a few thousand homes these are meters it's communicate between the appliances in your home and the great another
example that's commonly used is to put the washing the washing machine but you don't decide when it's turned on the grid does not consist of the grades ice use green electricity please I can say that a good I don't care what electricity to use as long as it's cheap but the great will decide based on balancing the load I'm on energy efficiency on using renewables when
your wash should actually go on sacrifice some of the control were very very fond of but perhaps we can prove speak persuades do that and personal interest getting cheap electricity and in the interests a better society according to international it's very very important for gaming and gaming is one of the big things that happens on the internet and it will be even bigger on the internet
of things this is a screenshot from a company called les are you can get the sulfur fear smartphone no and you can superimpose using the camera on the smart Fulham the game environment on the real borders around you with the internet of things is not just a picture of what's around you that would be part of the game but the objects and the people in that
environment would become part the came if I transform the face of gaming as we know it and already imaginations are running riot in the gaming industry where we be in twenty years it would be a very very rash person who would make concrete prediction nobody back in ninety three would have predicted the impact of the wave in our lives but the one thing that always hits
me is that by twenty thirty two we could individually be in contact with up to five thousand smart things and our everyday lives no that would be truly transformative could it bring a motion utopia the science fiction writer Ian and banks has written of a future society which he called the culture where humans have delegation of control of the planet and its resources twin network of
artificial intelligence and this network X. after the resources and I think it's the resources to everybody according to their needs everybody's needs are met strife is eliminated another thing the internet of things were produced that utopia but perhaps elements of this are possible if we can better manage and control traffic maybe we can finally eliminate the carnage on our roads if we can better manage energy
perhaps we can finally get to grips with a death wish that we seem to have for our planet's climate if we can monitor and look after the health of individual citizens perhaps we can reduce the chaos that since we incoherent in our health systems and perhaps the situation where your your access to health depends on your income can be eliminated not a complete utopia but perhaps
elements which are possible we'll just be a technocracy ruled by technology companies you know what I think we already live in a technocracy whether we like it or not look at the influence of a company like apple has they bring out smart phones to bring out pads and to become the two fastest growing technology sectors in history after recently became the most valuable company ever and
in the increasingly technological word under something like the internet of things they will have an enormous influence on society not maligned by any means the classic in nature and in fact the social theorists Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century conceived of an institution which I call the panopticon where all the inmates could be observed twenty four hours a day without ever knowing whether they were
being observed are nice the internet of things is the ultimate global pan up to privacy as a concept on to the internet of things may become meaningless and it's one of the big societal concerns no has positive aspects my heart monitor detects and Ruth mia times I sit down I've called an ambulance good while I'm sitting there I get this message coming through vannatter if you
tried our latest one drug would be sitting there waiting for an ambulance which when you know how individual people are using individual products and individually focused advertising become and it will transform the face of the marketing and advertising and but also in major intrusion boss more ominously in may the condition of your health insurance that your health insurer has accessed your car deck data and while
you're sitting there waiting quietly for the ambulance its message comes through and it's probably a sad reflection that this could actually be a reality the interests of things has also been termed a potential weapon of mass disruption we sing the damages the damage that viruses Trojans and worms can do what the current international if our energy system safety and security transport and health systems are all
part of one big word wide web the possibilities for terrorism and hacking are magnified almost beyond belief already researchers hacked into pacemakers insulin pumps cars smart meters Univ read about the war on that attack the Iranian nuclear plant curiously the internet of things has been called a shocking vulnerability but it's also a major opportunity security software industry I wonder how I wonder sometimes a and welcome
to stop or something have we reached the point of too much complexity Fyffe Tosun things demanding my attention I can barely do little voice to trigger the cash in a goldfish but I never had to make is just my age I have a feeling that those kids in crash giving their iPad lessons would think nothing office it seems there are wonderfully plastic human brains can adapt
any acceleration technology and embrace it lovingly whatever we think about it whatever way we think the tar knows if you switch because it's already happening every major global government and every major economic block is investing heavily in the internet of things they're already hundreds of millions of things connected to the internet we're heading for hundreds of billions are possibly trillions trillions depending on who you believe
just get used to it and it will change our lives that's the one certainty and if that change to be for the common good I don't think we can leave it technologists you know my wife and she's a psychologist and she ought to know she says I became an engineer because I can relate better to machine people I don't reflection she probably right if this internet
of things is to be for the common good we need the input and the support of people and human and social sciences when it ordinary people to join with us to make it good of society and the good of individuals there's a pyramid that's used in information science the bottom you have data and there will be a tremendous amount of data and the internet of things
it'll make the fourth post exabytes look like a drop in the ocean and it's a big opportunity for the data management industry we can use data mining to extract information we can use knowledge engineering to extract knowledge if they want to put the final cap on that pyramid the backup is wisdom but I think we can only do that if we create this internet of things
