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Europe could take the lead in the next generation of the Internet. In a document entitled "EU Communication on Future Networks and the Internet", the European Commission has outlined the main steps that Europe has to take to respond to the next wave of the Information Revolution that will intensify in the coming years due to trends such as social networking, the decisive shift to on-line business services, nomadic services based on GPS and mobile TV and the growth of smart tags.
They also launched a public consultation on the policy and private sector responses to these opportunities, in order to prepare an upcoming Communication on the Internet of Things. This document will propose a policy approach addressing the whole range of political and technological issues related to the move from RFID and sensing technologies to the Internet of Things. It will focus especially on architectures, control of critical infrastructures, emerging applications, security, privacy and data protection, spectrum management, regulations and standards, broader socio-economic aspects.
A working paper on the Internet of Things accompanies the consultation by outlining the early challenges of this important development.
And to make sure you got the importance of it all: the French have even organised a ministerial conference on it all.
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Comments
The internet of things is one of those incredibly perilous undertakings that could have both massive positive and negative outcomes.
Jonathon Zittrain in his masterpiece 'the future of the internet: and how to stop it' raises scenarios like someone driving past your house with a scanner and recording everything you own as one of several potential privacy oriented issues.
However if you want to make huge advances in sustainability i would suggest having better information sharing capabilities around what things you own for re-appropriating and best managing waste, reuse, recycling etc would be a huge step that gets around much of the reliance on modifying peoples relationship with the world before any meaningful change can happen.
Im ready for it so bring it on Europe! hopefully the future shocked libertarian honkies don't see it as a direct affront to their antiquated conceptions of freedom. Their are good ways of managing the problems as long as everyone comes together on it and sees how this could make the world a better place