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>I still don't believe what improvement it brings and if those outweigh possible privacy and security implications. It's tragic that this is true, because the

• mcguire 11y ago
  Once upon a time I worked in what later became the "Solutions Experience Laboratory" at IBM Austin (I worked in it physically; I didn't do much there.) The lab had a set of advanced technology demos, one of which was the "kitchen of the future". (I helped set up the "office of the future, said in a deep, announcerly voice.) Aside from the refrigerator/stove that you could put cold meals in, then connect over the internet to tell to start cooking, one of the best demos was an RFID reader built into the kitchen counter. You could set a prescription drug bottle down on the counter and a system would look up the interactions between that drug and the others that you had been prescribed, to warn you of harmful interactions. It could also warn you (or someone else) if you did not take your prescriptions on time or if you were running low on something necessary. (Honestly, the only thing cooler was the ice cream used to level-out the energy use of the freezer. (Yeah, and that experiment didn't last long.)) There are a lot of possibilities for the IoT, most of which are small, trivial things that could ultimately make a large difference. But mostly it seems set to make the world worse.