> Instead of many stand-alone embedded systems each doing one thing, we’ll have cheap dumb sensors and actuators controlled by software on a single central cont

> Instead of many stand-alone embedded systems each doing one thing, we’ll have cheap dumb sensors and actuators controlled by software on a single central control board, running some sort of operating system Is the approach of having a network of stand-alone embedded systems each doing one thing really going away? I thought it is a sensible way of handling complexity.