Because I must say I did not catch much of Bruce Sterling’s talk about “The Internet of Things”. Well, all I got is that it will happen in 30 years from now. We can’t name it today because we’re just in the middle of it. We (the ETECH crowd) can’t name it because we’re to close and too tech oriented to see the big picture. We only see the tech side of it.

 

“The Internet of Things” is not Web 2.0 because Web 2.0 is today. Web 2.0 formulates new mechanisms by which Web 1.0 guys can exploit new web stuff (I’m not so sure Mr. O’reilly appreciated this statement?).

 

I understood that “The Internet of Things” will be about searching, linking, ranking, sorting,… these entities he calls spimes: objects that are traceable in space and time.

 

Now I need to understand what all this really means. I’m sure I’ll find some great analysis tomorrow.

 

On the other hand, I found that the two organizers keynotes (Rael Dornfest and Tim O’Reilly) were not as punchy as last year. They repeated a lot of stuff for the new crowd (at least half of the attendees). They also did not focus much on the theme “Attention” which I did expect. Also a bit surprising that the main opening keynote was not related to this theme.

 

I’m still looking forward for tomorrow’s great line of speakers.

 

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