I will be giving a talk at the first annual Ignite Pittsburgh a part of the O’Reilly Ignite Global week. Ignite is a series of 5-minute talks on any topic – 20 slides at 15 seconds each. I will be giving a talk about the “Web of Things” aka “Internet of Things”. This is the future of connected devices and a new era of self-serving applications. This topic is near and dear to me as I have been connecting things together for a long time. It’s also the focus of ioBridge and some of the projects I work on. We used to kid about ioBridge being one step closer to Skynet… it may actually be true given enough time, iterations, and scale. Who knows how many times civilizations have been to this point before?
My talk is about the things that surround us – iPads, Toasters, Fridges, and Cars – and pose some questions – what if they were connected? What are the issues that we must consider? How can we disconnect in a connected world? After the talk, I will post the slides and if they record it, I may or may not post the video.
Brillobox
7 pm
February 10, 2011
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