IoT will streamline supply chain, reduce environmental impact
There’s a new Deloitte white paper that echoes a theme I’ve been repeating since 1990: smart businesses eliminate inefficiency by eliminating environmental waste. I predict that the Internet of Things...
View ArticleUsage-based Insurance: Preview of Radical Industry Change Through IoT
Holy Clayton Christensen! Another wave of “disruptive innovation” is on its way, and this time the Internet of Things is responsible! I’m confident that the IoT is going to bring about radical change...
View ArticleWhy collaboration must replace zero-sum game for IoT profitability
I guest blogged today @ INEX Advisors today on one of my favorite Internet of Things principles: how thinking collaboratively has to replace I-win-you-lose-zero-sum-game thinking if companies want to...
View ArticleI’ll moderate D.C. panel on IoT privacy and security!
Huzzah! As you know, I’ve been repeating the mantra that, as technological barriers such as battery size disappear, the most important obstacle threatening full development of the Internet of Things...
View ArticleThe Hill Publishes Op-Ed on IoT Security and Privacy
Earlier this week, The Hill, the highly-respected Capitol Hill newspaper, published an op-ed co-authored by Chris Rezendes of INEX Advisors and me on the ever-important topic of IoT privacy and...
View ArticleGood Paper by Mercatus on IoT Privacy and Security
I’m politically on the liberal, not the libertarian side, but I’ve come to respect the libertarian Mercatus Center, in large part because of the great work Jerry Brito has done there on governmental...
View ArticleCould IoT Allow Do-over for Privacy, Security — & Trust?
Expect to be reading a lot here about privacy and security between now and my panel on those issues at the IoT Summit in DC, Oct. 1 & 2, as I prep to ask the panel questions! Here’s another, from...
View ArticleIt’s Official: Tom Friedman Anoints the IoT; Plus Jobs Issue Is Raised!
OK, the Internet of Things is officially a Big Thing: Tom “World is Flat” Friedman wrote about it in the Sunday NY Times. Friedman, searching for evidence of American “exceptionalism” in a bleak...
View ArticleMore Evidence #IoT has Arrived: CNBC Docu ToNite
On the heels of Tom Friedman’s Sunday NYT column, here’s more evidence the IoT is achieving mainstream recognition: CNBC will air a 1-hour documentary tonight, titled “Rise of the Machines,” 9 PM EDT...
View ArticleChatting up Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino.There at the beginning!
I’m about to launch a new venture: paid speaking about the Internet of Things to corporate audiences and college students (details to come in the near future — but feel free to contact me NOW if you...
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