A fascinating article from Philip N. Howard at George Washington University asserts that the number of connected devices surpassed the number of people on the planet in 2014 (Fig. 1). The author estimates that by 2020, the Internet of Things (IoT) will approach 50 billion connected devices. In other words, while humans will continue to connect their devices to the Web in greater numbers, a bigger explosion will come from “things” connecting to the Web that weren’t connected before, or didn’t exist, or now use their connection as a core feature...
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