It is foreseen billions of connected devices in an IoT environment in the near Future. Devices, parts of devices (e.g parts of the cars, home assets, gadgets) will be present in the IoT environment. Do you think a person will be part of that IoT environment? This can have many aspects like our identity to have a presence like other assets and also the body be connected by a number of wearables and even implanted devices and... will that include our connected brain ?
Eventually, yes.
This is what we are anticipating on the basis on what we know today. Tomorrow, however, may carries surprises we can't see today. I hope this will serve the human life on earth not the opposite!
Hi Alaa, thanks for your reply.
In fact from what we know today we can imagine a lot of things that are possible with existing technology. With technology that can exist is a bigger challenge to figure what will be the future.
I think that one of the concerns is security. Just imagine the sensors that we can wear or be implanted and that can be monitored remotely and adjusted by doctor's advice. If they become hacked could be very dangerous.
But if we achieve a high level of security, data can be collected by IoT devices inside the body and constitute a very helpful asset for medicine.
There is already a strand of HCI that looks into 'insertables'. http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/january-february-2016/insertables
Interesting article Katharina, Thank you. I think its very much possible that humans start living in the materealistic world where social meetings will also be via insertables. But security has always been a concern. Whatever be we get attracted to the technology..
Hi Preeti, that is right we sometimes adhere to technology because it is fancy and we like novelty but when we notice there are some parts of our freedom that go away. Either because we get addicted to such technologies like smartphones and similar devices but also because we loose our privacy when our location is always available and our navigation history is known. We can go out and let portable or wearable devices at home and enter such "private mode" but with insertables that will not be possible and there are serious risks.
THAT IS THE WRONG QUESTION, in my view.
Humans ARE part of the IoT system, because it is a goal oriented echo-system built by humans for humans, even if the sensors are not embedded in our flesh indefinitely. I would be much more weary of a situation where IoT is NO LONGER SERVING HUMANS EXCLUSIVELY. That is, the service will be for the benefit of the machines. Then it is only a question of time for a conflict of interest situation to arise.
The "right" question would then be:
When will Machines be the intended beneficiaries of the IoT ecosystem?
Wow, that is way ahead of our current reality.
Thanks Eli but that is your angle. In my view i am assuming that IoT is an ecosystem around us where we benefit as users but not necessarily as pieces of such ecosystem.
But of course there can be many views for the same issue, that is the greatness of this discussions in the scientific community.
Cheers
Either indirectly with external electronics "smartphones" or directly electronic sensors, biotech, and so on ... we already are we will integrate more at some point in the future most likely.
Regarding Eli Rohn at some point we might be more cyborgs and robots and integration will be so deep that we might encounter gray separation areas.
Thanks Gonçalo, I think that most of people in this research area are expressing concerns about AI and other related issues like replacement of components of our body and robots that can be autonomous and thus represent a threat to human kind.
Those concerns make sense, but prior to that we will face a progressive robotisation and replacement of humans by robots and other automated systems leading to unemployment and social pressure. That is in my view an immediate concern that we all should address and can only be replaced by improving skills of human workers.
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