Smart Computer Co., Inc. The following is some background information about the Internet of Things, in preparation for a speech at Kemp Mill Toastmasters on January 4, 2017. I gave a technical introduction for the non-technical audience as Toastmasters Advanced Communicator Series, Technical Presentations, Project # 5 – Enhancing a Technical Talk with the Internet.
The PowerPoint presentation is available as a PowerPoint or an Adobe PDF file.
The Internet of Things includes devices connected through the internet, beyond the ordinary servers and other user-accessed computers. This can range from factories and power plants to medium-sized devices such as home appliances to small devices such as individual light bulbs. The possibilities for good – and potentially for bad – are staggering.
- A good overview (subject to the occasional bad edit) is available on Wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things.
- The Internet of “Things” has nothing to do with Dr. Seuss’s Thing 1 and Thing 2, except in this poem: If Dr. Seuss could comment upon IoT, this is what he might say.
If you have any comments or questions about my speech or about the Internet of Things, please feel free to contact me via email at manasseh@smartcomputerinc.com.
Manasseh Katz, CC