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Quick, what are all the problems with the internet today?!
by bvi 16y ago
Quick, what are all the problems with the internet today?!
- erikstarck 16y agoWe've been through the internet of documents (Google). Then came the internet of people (Facebook). And the internet of places (Foursquare). Next up is the internet of objects.
- andreyf 16y agoThat's odd: I feel like I know exactly what you mean. :-P
- peterwwillis 16y agoas in, an internet of fridges and door locks and cars? good god, the viruses... let's put off the internet of objects until we have a web browser that isn't exploited every other month.
- mambodog 16y agoI dunno, when someone gets their front door phished, then maybe normal people will start to care about getting rid of IE6...
- drtse4 16y agoThat internet of things thing is promising, but imho no one has yet identified which problems the people really want to solve. Ultra-cheap wifi/sensors/little_but_not_too_much_cpu/extensible modules are yet to come, what will happen when 4-5$ modules will be available?
- erikstarck 16y agoIt's simple. Every object should have a URL with its history, owners, manufacturer, components, value etc. A Facebook of objects. Someone should build it.
- yesbabyyes 16y agoThis is true! Have you thought a lot about it? What is to entice people to start using it? I have had similar ideas for a long time, ever since I was passed the possession of the (defunct) skivsamling.nu. One idea, as a motivator, is for insurance purposes. I can see a lot of applications, but for it to take off it has to be fun to do it. Also, do you have an idea of how to identify each object?
- akv 16y agoIsn't that part of what the Semantic Web is supposed to be?
- erikstarck 16y agoSure, but that comment reminds me of slide 7 here: http://www.slideshare.net/gueste94e4c/dropbox-startup-lessons-learned-3836587 http://www.slideshare.net/gueste94e4c/dropbox-startup-lesson...
- mkramlich 16y agooh like I would list them here in a public venue (switches back to other tab and back to hacking away wildly)
- bvi 16y agoIf you do, you could point everyone to this link 10 years down the road and gloat how prescient you actually were.