Simplicity Needed in the Internet of Things

by Tom Goodwin - Mediapost, Oct. 15, 2015 – 

In this marketplace of complexity and paralysis that 'smart' devices, sensors, beacons, self-driving cars and the entire world of the Internet of Things enter, I worry that we're going about things wrong.

When new technologies arrive we seem to embrace the newness so eagerly that everything becomes additional. We consider what new things can now be done, what new possibilities are created, what new opportunities there are to connect with people. Everything is additive.

The current malaise in the IoT is that these things are not wanted or better, we've designed around the new, not what is wanted, we've not solved problems with technology, we've embellished.

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