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I noticed that abstract ideas that otherwise make no sense has the ability to survive by simply changing their definition to fit whatever context they are being

• moron4hire 9y ago
  Would you deliver that cookie via a cryptographic hash?
• hardwaresofton 9y ago
  While I am also jaded at the mention of "IoT" these days, I think he tied it down to the concrete well enough, in discussing "time series data". With TimescaleDB time series data is the offer, not some vague idea of "connectedness" or "the future".
• flyingcircus3 9y ago
  Iot is only the latest in a long chain of previous buzzword heritage. Telemetrics, M2M, etc were also hammers in search of the elusive nail. I posit that the main difference this time around is the democratization of marketing the internet has created. More people have thrown more shit at the proverbial wall, thus, more stuck. But iot still remains a huge industry without a killer app, at least in the consumer market.