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IoT then and now

IoT then and now

Hi, I'm Matthew Clark. And this is Lesson 1.2: IoT Then and Now. In this lesson, we will take a step back in time and discuss IoT predictions from the year 2014. Then we will quickly fast forward to the present and see if those predictions came true. We're going to focus on IoT's current state and we'll look at some statistics to get a feel for what's going on. And we're going to investigate different uses and applications of IoT. Finally, we're going to take a look at the challenges that IoT still has to overcome. So let's get started. So let's take a ride in our time machines back to 2014, July 2014, that is. Jason Bloomberg just wrote an article in why.com entitled Seven Reasons Why the Internet of Things is Doomed. And these were his reasons. First, security and privacy, which he correctly pointed out were two different things. He was worried because in 2014, our best efforts to secure IoT still allowed script kiddies to hack baby monitors and laptop cameras. He was concerned…

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