Tyranny of Things

In GigaOM:   This reminds me of how our devices and software have started to control us.  Smartphonesvibrating and a sales forecast changing what we do next.  Algorithms combining the signals between many elements of the world to influence our decisions.  And once everything is tagged and communicating on the net?  Cisco in recent communications is probing this exploding market: " ... Cisco, a company that stands to make a lot of money by bringing the network to the disconnected objects in our lives, has released a study exploring what the networking giant is re-branding the “Internet of Everything.” On the one hand, its content is comfortably predictable – essentially a wide-eyed promise that the market is going to be really, really big. More interesting though is the accompanying blog entry by CEO John Chambers, who doesn’t just summarize his company’s findings, but actually offers an important shoutout to the Internet of Everything Economy.... " .  It will happen, and we need to be ready, both technologically and preserving our own humanity.