Things are connected and are being connected to the internet at an amazing rate ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20140908
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- 20041000
- Neil Gershenfeld at MIT has published such thoughts for some time. See the article in ScientificAmerican "The Internet of Things", October 2004
- 20080000
- In 2008, the number of things connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people on Earth.
- Since then, that connected population has continued to grow exponentially, resulting in today's vast, global network of objects communicating and developing intelligence on their own, complex Internet of things. - And that is only the beginning. - from where:
- Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG):
- More things are connecting to the Internet than people — over 12.5 billion devices in 2010 alone
- predicts connections:
- 2015 - 25 billion devices
- 2020 - 50 billion devices
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