Comprehensive ‘internet of things’ action plan

Rob van Kranenborg, lid van de EU Expert Group van the Internet Of Things (IOT), heeft een integraal IOT actieplan gemaakt. Rob maakt duidelijk waarom IOT in principe een positieve systeemverandering is. Hij laat zien waarom er urgentie is, hij komt met een concreet voorstel om drie taskforces te starten en hij zet in op een ‘foldable screen’ als key device ‘to build an inclusive smart society’. Prachtig verhaaltje aan het begin:

Nathan Weaver set up an experiment to figure out how to make it safer for turtles to cross highways. He “put realistic-looking rubber turtles, no bigger than a saucer, in the middle of a lane on a busy road near campus. Then he got out of the way and watched as over the next hour, seven drivers intentionally ran over the turtle, and several more appeared to try to hit the defenseless animal, but missed… One in 50 drivers ran over the dummy turtles. In itself that ratio might seem –although still awful (and not taking into account drivers aiming for but missing the turtle) not alarming, “but consider how long it take a turtle to cross the road and it becomes plain to see that road-crossing for turtles on any semi-busy road means guaranteed death.” Each small unkind and selfish act has not an equally small consequence but – due to the fact that the infrastructure (road) forces the tool (car) to follow a particular path – is able to destroy totally that which is its opposite (slow, vulnerable, purposeful).

En dan ook maar meteen de laatste zinnen:

The road to openness is hard and long. If we can not get the balance right we risk losing an enormous amount of human potential. We also risk our own shot at ‘controlling’ Climate Change as this proposal enables real time monitoring of what is now still ‘personal’ devices and streamlining them to obtain a near to perfect energy efficiency.

Tip: Lees het tussenliggende ook.