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people and enterprises for quite some time.
2014 marks the 45th anniversary of the
Internet and the 25th of the World Wide Web.
The term "Internet of Things" was coined in
the late 1990s. So what has brought about its
sudden prominence, the excited talk, and the
increased investment from the private and
public sectors?
Hal Varian, the Chief Economist at Google,
points to the lower prices for sensors,
processors, and networking. He also notes
the impact of the recent mobile computing
revolution on the abundance of network
connections. "Since WiFi is now widely
deployed, it is relatively easy to add new
networked devices to the home and office,"
he says. Janus Bryzek, known as the "Father

global networks, IPv6 offers more than
7.9×1028 times as many addresses as the
previous generation.
The media has also played a role, notes
Bob Metcalfe, inventor of the Ethernet and
currently Professor of Innovation at the
University of Texas at Austin. "Technologies
and standards and products and markets
emerge slowly, but then suddenly, chaotically,
the media latches on and boom! It's the year
of the IoT," he says.
All those forces-the mobile revolution, the
increasing number of Internet addresses,
and media attention-have converged in 2014
to form a tipping point for the IoT. But is it a
passing fad? Haven't we just gone through at
least two years of breathless pronouncements

42%
of Sensors," also points to technological
advancements. Bryzek, the organizer of the
Trillion Sensor Summit and the Vice President
of Development, Microelectromechanical
Systems (MEMS) and Sensor Solutions at
Fairchild Semiconductor, ascribes the surge
in interest in the IoT to the possibilities
presented by the new version of the Internet
Protocol, IPv6, which has approximately
3.4×1038 addresses and enables an almost
unlimited number of devices to connect to
the Internet. Increasingly deployed over

about the revolutionary potential of yet
another big thing, "Big Data"?
When we talk about big things, it's always
advisable to look at the big picture. To
understand the true potential of the IoT and
what may sustain and even accelerate its
development in the near future, it's important
to place it in the larger context of the forces
that have given rise to new technology-related
markets over the past 50 years.



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