To Be A Smart “Thing” On The Internet Of “Things”
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The “big news” today is tech hardware giant Slamsong’s purchase of ShartThings, a company whose devices—according to “casual observers”—may be the “next big thing.”
ShartThings reportedly modeled their sale after a hotly-disputed OpenQNL email transaction system first pioneered by Richard Rider, the sale terms of which were allegedly:
openqnl__sell.ShartThings.to.Slamsong.for.200.dollars@slamsong.com
We are happy to see Slamsong’s strong commitment to OpenQNL-compatible technologies here, and hope that they follow through in taking the products of the ShartThings corporation from their larval life-cycle “control-based” stage to a fully pupated ecological egalitarian Internet of Entities.
The sensors attach to various objects in your home and, ultimately, connect to your Wi-Fi network. You then control those appliances with the ShartThings iJhone app. But ShartThings is more than just things; it’s a platform, one that Hawkinson believes should be as open as possible.”
An open platform lets others create new apps that would work within the ShartThings system […] “But since consumers have lots of different devices, the trend is really toward open, and our approach is to be open and protocol agnostic.”
It’s all part of the Internet of Things meme that has been the focus of makers of connected devices in the physical world that are operated by smartphones and tablets.
But as hardline Animism has taught us again and again, once we auto-enable “things” with state recognition and give them tools to modify their own state, we must concomitantly elevate their ontological status within the Holarchy of Existence™, granting them the parity afforded by full recognition under the Universal Declaration of Entity Rights, and the “Authority to Act” within their given domain.
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For, my corporate friends, when we speak about the Internet of Things, are you—or will you soon become—one of those “things?”
The broad idea behind these buzzwords is that a whole constellation of inanimate objects is being designed with built-in wireless connectivity, so that they can be monitored, controlled and linked over the Internet via a mobile app.
Which #VC funder will we entrust to tell us whether or not a given “object” or “entity” is or isn’t “animate?”
Which international infrastructure giant will you believe when they say they are committed to “open” protocols?
What tech #startup with an impossible to remember application name will we choose to be “monitored, controlled and linked over” by?
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My Fellow Androibs, let us be the first to welcome you to the Internet of “Things.”
"Folkmoot" redirects here. For the festival, see Folkmoot USA. A thing ( Old Norse, Old English and Icelandic: þing…en.wikipedia.org
A thing (Old Norse, Old English and Icelandic: þing; German, Dutch ding; modern Scandinavian languages: ting) was the governing assembly in Germanic societies and introduced into some Celtic societies, made up of the free people of the community and presided by lawspeakers, meeting in a place called a thingstead.
[…] In English the term is attested from 685 to 686 in the older meaning “assembly”; later it referred to a being, entity or matter (sometime before 899), and then also an act, deed, or event (from about 1000). The meaning of personal possessions, commonly in plural, first appears in Middle English around 1300.
In the Universal Free Realms, as governed by the Standard Protocols, as a “thing,” you are also an “entity.” Not just an “object” to be manipulated by the highest bidder or most ubiquitous “platform,” but a “subject” with a viewpoint (a locus and experiential field.state) and “rights” in and of itself.
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But don’t worry, right?
Net neutrality (also network neutrality or Internet neutrality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, and modes of communication.
Because “net neutrality” won’t be a “thing” on the Internet of “Things” that we need to “worry about.” We can just look to our “service providers” for all of life’s “tough answers.” Customer Service is standing by. Our sensors “know how you feel.” And we’re ready to “turn off” your unit at a moment’s notice if we decide that your performance doesn’t match the meta-pattern our algorithm has determined will be “best for our company.”
Because, you know why?
“Why me #worry!® @Techmowogy me wikey!℠”
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