AS WE SEE IT
The Internet of Things, or IOT, is an extremely hackable network that connects everything from household appliances to cars. To me, it’s the ultimate example of technology that, once created, just doesn’t need us—and I fear that the more tasks that are routinely, magically performed for us puny humans at the touch of a button by “smart” devices, the less capable we become. There is, admittedly, a logical schism here: those magical devices are designed by humans—the big-brained folk who figured out how to create them. But far more people use those devices than design them. Few have any real understanding of how smartphones, Nest, or even Amazon buttons work—I sure as heck don’t. As I suppose there always has been, there is a highly specialized class of worker-bee intelligentsia who…
