{"id":438679,"date":"2010-03-17T07:46:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T11:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ibm-thinks-there-will-be-more-things-on-the-internet-than-people-eventually-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-17T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T11:46:48","slug":"ibm-thinks-there-will-be-more-things-on-the-internet-than-people-eventually-ibm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/438679","title":{"rendered":"IBM Thinks There Will Be More “Things” On The Internet Than People Eventually (IBM)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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IBM is pushing the “Internet of Things” as one of its next big businesses.<\/p>\n

There’s over 1 billion people on the Internet now. Soon it will be 2 billion. IBM things eventually there’s more things like refrigerators, stop lights, washing machines and TVs on the Internet.<\/p>\n

The Internet of things is a utopian dream world where all of your inanimate objects like alarm clocks and refrigerators spring to life through connections to the Web.<\/p>\n

In the video below, via ReadWriteWeb<\/a>, you get a glimpse of it. The alarm clock knows you need to catch the ferry in 1 1\/2 hours to get to work, so it wakes you up. The alarm clock also talks to the heater in your bathroom a half hour before it goes off so the bathroom is warm. The bathroom talks to your car to de-ice the windshield, and so on…<\/p>\n

It’s neat looking, that’s for sure. But, it also feels like something we’ll look at in 20 to 30 years and laugh at. Predicting the future is a tough business. It always looks dated later on.<\/p>\n

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