IoT isn't about making 'things' for consumers like you and me, it's about embedding sensors in public infrastructure and creating networks of machines and senso

IoT isn't about making 'things' for consumers like you and me, it's about embedding sensors in public infrastructure and creating networks of machines and sensors that interoperate. You'll never 'see' IoT or buy IoT devices, it'll just be embedded into whatever product you buy and it won't be opt-out. That's why we need public protocols for IoT sensors, because otherwise all of that data will be in the hands of giant corps and then we'll truly live in a dystopian surveillance state. This is the end game of surveillance capitalism; as detailed by Shoshana Zuboff in her new book.