The next big thing always looks better than the last big thing, especially when that next big thing is the Internet of Things. If your eyes glazed over as you read that sentence, or if you’re not entirely sure what we’re talking about when we say Internet of Things, you’re not alone. A recent poll carried out in the US found that 90 per cent of consumers don’t have a notion what that phrase means.
But they will soon.
If its proselytisers are to be believed – and they probably are – the consuming world is about to live through the greatest upheaval since the industrial revolution.
It is far from such bold claims that the Internet of Things was reared. It was born at a US conference in 1989 when a techie called John Romkey was challenged by another techie to build an internet-ready toaster. He did, and it made its debut at the same conference a year later. Then, a year after that, a robotic arm was added to his device to allow bread to be picked up and dropped into his internet toaster remotely.
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