[LINK] CFP: Internet of Things - March 26-28, 2008 - Zurich

[Tom Worthington]

At 09:32 PM 11/05/2007, Roger Clarke wrote:
>>Internet of Things 2008 http://www.internet-of-things-2008.org/cfp/ ...
>>
>>The term "Internet of Things" has come to describe a number of 
>>technologies and research disciplines that enable the Internet to 
>>reach out into the real world of physical objects.  ...

"Internet of Things" is missing the point, like the idea of adapting 
e-mail for carrying paper letters was.

As the information about objects is put on the Internet, it will be 
the Internet which makes the objects of value and "real". Delete the 
information from the Internet and many objects will become worthless 
and for practical purposes cease to exist.

An "Internet of Things" would then be a tautology, much as prefixing 
"mail" with "electronic" is now unnecessary.



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