Blog 16: Technology of the future

After reading this last chapter in Greengard’s book I have become excited. I am excited if any of the technologies that he envisions in the end come true. How cool would it be to wake up everyday and make your morning routine easier. I am not a morning person so anything helps. Walking from room to room without turning lights on or off, having the shower be the exact temperature that you want it to be, and having coffee ready for you right away would be awesome. Thinking about all of these technologies mentioned, it really does not seem like some of that stuff is far off. I know we talked about a coffee machine that will make coffee for you from the internet. It seems like installing sensors in every room may be not the best use of resources but that seems like something that is possible to have lights turn on and off as you walk in and walk out of rooms.

It is amazing to think of how things are connected today. It is even more amazing to try and envision how connected things will be in the future. We are actually giving some thought into the IoT. But in the future I feel like it will be a concept that is not new and it won't amaze some. I am excited to see where the IoT will take us in the future.

Questions:

What technology excites you most about the future?

Do you agree that we are not that far away from what Greengard describes in his last chapter?

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Greengard, Samuel. The internet of things. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Chapter 7]