The Internet of Things: Monopoly Capitalism vs. Collaborative Commons | Jeremy Rifkin. This post is excerpted from Jeremy Rifkin's new book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, published today by Palgrave Macmillan. If I had told you 25 years ago that, in a quarter century's time, one-third of the human race would be communicating with one another in huge global networks of hundreds of millions of people -- exchanging audio, video, and text -- and that the combined knowledge of the world would be accessible from a cellphone, that any single individual could post a new idea, introduce a product, or pass a thought to a billion people simultaneously, and that the cost of doing so would be nearly free, you would have shaken your head in disbelief. All are now reality. And what if prosumers everywhere were able to connect, produce and share their own energy, physical products, and services on a global Collaborative Commons, at low or near zero marginal cost?
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Description. Internet of Things. Description site. Why the ‘Internet of Things’ Is Changing Enterprise IT. SAN FRANCISCO — April 20, 2011 — To a meteorologist, a cloud consists of billions of droplets suspended as vapor that can stretch for miles and subtly affect everything on the ground below. In an enterprise IT environment, billions of devices can gather data from interactions all over the world, and produce a profound effect on the way organizations plan, act and work.
Earlier today at the SMART Technology World conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Windows Embedded General Manager Kevin Dallas illustrated what clouds and cloud computing have in common, and explained why the Internet of Things is going to change the way enterprises capitalize on data. The Embedded Device Explosion Today powerful processors can be embedded into almost any kind of device.
Operating systems for such devices have become small and powerful enough to facilitate a wide range of functions and interactions. And almost anything can be connected to the Internet. Dr. The Internet of Things The Power of Smart Devices. Internet of Things Conference - IoT World Forum 2014 - London M2M Barcelona UK. Internet of Things (IoT)