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Paul Barter
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Toronto Intellectual Property Group
The Internet of Things – The Next Big Trend?
General purpose Technologies
The next
fortune.
Who captures the value?
Speed: 1.3-1.7 TFLOPS (!!!)
Price: $55,000,000
Size: 0.8 tennis courts
Name: ASCI RED
10 years later...
Speed: 1.8 TFLOPS
Price: $499
Size: 0.00045 tennis courts
Name: ?
A new supercomputer appears…
Presence
Immediacy
Interest
Personalization
Location (sensors)
And Context!
50’s & 60’s
60’s & 70’s
70’s & 80’s
90’s & 2000’s
2000’s
2010’s
Beginning now
The next innovation sweet spot?
The combination of hardware,
software and sensors known as
the ‘Internet of Things’
What is IT?
Internet of Things: How Big in 5 Years?
20 Billion devices? 50 Billion Devices?
If you build it
they will
come
STEM
Science, Technology, Engineering,
Math
STEAM
Same + Arts
Inertia
Google from ….
Large, complex systems ….first
Industrial internet
Healthcare
Energy and
Climate
Change
Consumer data
Consequences?
Paul Barter
@barterpaul
paulbarter.com
Toronto Intellectual Property Group
The Internet of Things – The Next Big Trend?

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  1. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2832.5+cm+x+27.4+cm+in+m%5E2%29+%2F+%28area+singles+tennis+court+in+m%5E2%29+in+percentage
  2. http://www.technologyreview.com/review/534581/the-purpose-of-silicon-valley/ http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/Business_Technology/An_executives_guide_to_the_Internet_of_Things?cid=digital-eml-alt-mip-mck-oth-1508 Doug Henton, who heads the consulting firm Collaborative Economics and oversaw an upcoming research report on the state of the Valley, argues that since 1950 the area has experienced five technological waves. Each has lasted about 10 to 20 years and encompassed a frenzy followed by a crash and shakeout and then a mature “deployment period.” Henton has identified these waves as defense (1950s and 1960s), integrated circuits (1960s and 1970s), personal computers (1970s and 1980s), Internet (1990s), and social media (2000s and 2010s). By these lights, the social-media wave, however dominant it is in the public eye, soon may be replaced by another wave. Henton suggests that it’s likely to involve the combination of software, hardware, and sensors in wearable devices and the “Internet of things.”