I think we may face with philosophical discussion here as this question will eventually lead to the main question which addresses the impact (good or bad) of pervasiveness of technology in human life.
What is the relation of machines and our daily life? Do they really helps our life or not?
And that is a multi-fold phenomena which is under scrutiny for at least three decades....
As it happened for other things before IoT, a lot of applications using sensors or data communication are being called of IoT without being really connected to the principle of IoT.