The internet represented one kind of economic transformation: it connected people, information, markets, and institutions at global scale. The Internet of Things represents the next step. It extends connectivity into the physical world, linking sensors, machines, infrastructure, and automated...
Before sunrise in Kenya, a truck carrying fresh food starts a route that crosses farms, warehouses, road corridors, depots, wholesalers, and retailers before the day is done. Not long ago, much of that journey unfolded in a haze of...
Thomas still remembers how his grandfather worked a field before sunrise.
The day began with inspection, not data. He checked the irrigation cut with a shovel, walked the crop line by line, pressed soil between his fingers, and judged moisture...
Connectivity no longer supports public services. It determines who can use them. A patient signing into Teladoc expects a routine consultation, only to find the image freeze and the audio break apart as bandwidth slips below the 1.5 to...
The Rise of the Machine-to-Machine Internet
Scroll through a forum thread and imagine realizing you’re the only human there.
A user named MacroRealist_v3 posts a 600-word critique of fiscal expansion. Within minutes, three other accounts respond with counterarguments citing inflation data...
Connectivity Became the Baseline
For more than a decade, connected systems were designed around a predictable hierarchy. Devices sensed local conditions, networks transported the data, and centralized cloud platforms processed, analyzed, and acted at scale. Intelligence accumulated inside hyperscale environments...
The connected home category accelerated with the rise of voice assistants positioned as central control hubs. Amazon launched the Echo with Alexa in 2014, and by 2022 the company had reportedly sold more than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices worldwide....
For much of the past decade, small digital devices have operated under a quiet but consequential limitation. They could either remain aware of their surroundings or last long enough to be practical at scale. Rarely both. Motion sensors, wearables,...
The State of the Internet of Things Industry
The Internet of Things has moved decisively beyond experimentation and early adoption into a period of structural maturity. IoT is no longer defined by individual devices or isolated deployments, but by its...
Connected living is no longer an emerging phenomenon in parts of the world where digital infrastructure, affordability, and adoption have converged. Middle-class households in suburban areas of the United States and Western Europe provide a useful baseline for understanding...
