Sorry to be blunt, but likening the Internet of Things to CB Radio and Hoverboards is extremely myopic. All of the above concepts you referred to are arguably

Sorry to be blunt, but likening the Internet of Things to CB Radio and Hoverboards is extremely myopic. All of the above concepts you referred to are arguably within the IoT, IP-addressable lightbulbs is one minuscule point of value that can be derived from gathering and processing information on the Internet. You should think about it more like this: there's an infrastructure layer, a hardware layer and a software layer...those changing and advancing three points of technology will provide waves and waves of oncoming new business models and value for decades.