If you are in the communications business, you should hope the hype is going to be proven correct, and Internet of Things is as transformative as was the Industrial Revolution.
The reason is that all those connected devices represent the next wave of growth after mobile data saturates. And that is just the "access" part of the story.
To the extent that "dumb pipe" providers want to "move up the stack" and into value-added parts of the ecosystem, IoT offers many opportunities to do so.
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Will IoT be as Big as the Industrial Revolution?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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