Reading club Internet of Things

What is it we want Europeans to understand? Our scenario is breakdown of national states and EU under ten years if datalakes and the capabilities derived from that (predictive maintenance not just of IIoT but of all processes in society, AI hitting Big Data creating new entities) are not under control of the actors collecting taxes.

The choice is thus not about ‘privacy’ or ‘security of devices’, but about continuing to function as a society able to offer generic infrastructures to its citizens. The policy focus on identity that we have strongly is related. Why would there be so many contenders for providing identity (WIN, Sovrin, ID2020, Uport/IoTA…) if the system itself of the nation state was ‘stable’? After Over The Top players on services, the next logical step we witness is on systemic identity itself. Therefore we want to read texts together that bring a positive realism of technology.

The first is MARGE PIERCE: WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME.