The emerging IoT space holds enormous potential for positive social,
environmental, and financial impact, if it is built with the most important node at its
center: people. In order for the next wave of innovation around connected devices to
happen, people must be able understand the technology, relate it to their lives, and be
able to envision and prototype solutions to real-world problems, even when these
problems are relevant only for the few. This, in turn, will happen only when the
Internet becomes a Material, accessible to non-engineers and non-experts that can grasp
and deploy interactions with the Internet in the physical world, as easily as they can
with physical materials. In this report, transcribed from her talk at the 2014 Solid
Conference, Bdeir discusses how we can democratize the Internet of Things and enable
eight-year-old kids, corporate executives, and professional engineers alike to
understand, recreate, and, most importantly, innovate in their connected
world.
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The emerging IoT space holds enormous potential for positive social, environmental, and financial impact, if it is built with the most important node at its center: people. In order for the next wave of innovation around connected devices to happen, people must be able understand the technology, relate it to their lives, and be able to envision and prototype solutions to real-world problems, even when these problems are relevant only for the few. This, in turn, will happen only when the Internet becomes a Material, accessible to non-engineers and non-experts that can grasp and deploy interactions with the Internet in the physical world, as easily as they can with physical materials. In this report, transcribed from her talk at the 2014 Solid Conference, Bdeir discusses how we can democratize the Internet of Things and enable eight-year-old kids, corporate executives, and professional engineers alike to understand, recreate, and, most importantly, innovate in their connected world.