An intriguing thought

The thought of combining the physical world with the internet is kind of the vision for the next internet. The idea of obiquity is not new of course, but when seen from a practical perspective like this at least I find it easier to grasp what the whole thing is about. It's gonna be BIG. 

Comments

[Pooja Nair]

Intriging alright! Nice visual.

[ben]

We are starting to see it already with things like RFID tagging. The physical world is quite literally integrating with the digital. The truth is, we already live in a digital world, we are only just learning how to make the most of it. Here at Dare in London we talk about 'marketing for a digital world', rather than 'digital marketing'.

[alina]

always great visuals here. thx.

and ben, yeap. totally right.

[Leon]

What's really interesting is not the sensor technology itself (like rfid or other type of sensors) but how they communicate with each other. I believe that the disseminiation of innovation always has been slower than necessary due to proprietary technologies, but with off-the-shelf base technologies and open platforms, the sky is the limit. Low-end obiquity can be achieved by sensors from Radio Shack and a Twitter-account. Think about using twitter not as a front-end interface but a back-end system that allows all the connected sensors communicate to you and to each other...

[Andreas]

The internet is decentralized, made up from its endpoint terminals. Social groups on the internet are formed according to the same network structure. Open source software is produced in a flat polyarchy.

Yet most of business, politics, religion and government are strict hierarchies.

This is where the friction arise between the old and new. The internet is showing us the power of organizing without organizations, how network structures are more efficient than hierarchies.