雖然本書從物聯網到協同共享到資本主義衰亡的邏輯間有問題，但它有些介紹的內容，是有知識性的，可以參考。後續幾篇會分別摘要重點，並說明趨勢。
IoT 由三個網路組成(page 18)
IoT is made up of a Communications Internet, an Energy Internet, and a Logistics Internet that work together in a single operating system, continuously finding ways to increase thermodynamic efficiencies and productivity in the marshaling of resources, the production and distribution of goods and services, and the recycling of waste. Each of these three Internets enables the others. Without communication, we can’t manage economic activity. Without energy, we can’t generate information or power transport. Without logistics, we can’t move economic activity across the value chain. Together, these three operating systems comprise the physiology of the new economic organism.
IoT 因硬體降價與IP增加而普及 (Page 63)
The term Internet of Things was coined by Kevin Ashton, one of the founders of the MIT Auto ID Center, back in 1995. In the years that followed, the IoT languished because the cost of sensors and actuators embedded in “things” was still relatively expensive.
Between 2012 and 2013, the cost of radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips, which are used to monitor and track things, plummeted by 40 percent. These tags now cost less than ten cents each. The price of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), including gyroscopes, accelerometers, and pressure sensors, has also dropped by 80 to 90 percent in the past five years.
The other obstacle has been the Internet protocol, IPv4 which allows only 4.3 billion unique addresses on the Internet. Now, a new Internet protocol version, IPv6,has been developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force; it will expand the number of available addresses to a staggering 340 trillion trillion trillion—more than enough to accommodate the projected 2 trillion devices expected to be connected to the Internet in the next ten years.
IoT 的隱私與資安也許不是問題, 因為未來的大同世界人們不需要太多隱私(Page 64-65)
For a younger generation growing up in a globally connected world where every moment of their lives are eagerly posted and shared with the world via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and countless other social media sites, privacy has lost much of its appeal. For them, freedom is not bound up in self-contained autonomy and exclusion, but rather, in enjoying access to others and inclusion in a global virtual public square. The moniker of the younger generation is transparency, its modus operandi is collaboration, and its self-expression is exercised by way of peer production in laterally scaled networks.
Whether future generations living in an increasingly interconnected world—where everyone and everything is embedded in the Internet of Things—will care much about privacy is an open question.
The central question is: When every human being and everything is connected, what boundaries need to be established to ensure that an individual’s right to privacy will be protected?
Cyber thieves can steal personal identities for commercial gain, social media sites can sell data to advertisers and marketers to enhance their profits, and political operatives can pass on vital information to foreign governments. How then do we ensure an open, transparent flow of data that can benefit everyone while guaranteeing that information concerning every aspect of one’s life is not used without their permission and against their wishes in ways that compromise and harm their well-being?
Yet there is a clear understanding that if the proper balance is not struck between transparency and the right to privacy, the evolution of the Internet of Things is likely to be slowed, or worse, irretrievably compromised and lost, thwarting the prospects of a Collaborative Age.
經濟學人對IoT的研究報告，企業界都認同物聯網對未來產業的衝擊(Page 66)
In 2013 The Economist’s intelligence unit published the first global business index on the “quiet revolution” that’s beginning to change society. The Economist surveyed business leaders across the world, concentrating on the key industries of financial services, manufacturing, health care, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, IT and technology, energy and natural resources, and construction and real estate. The report started off by observing that the rapid drop in technology costs and new developments in complimentary fields including mobile communication and cloud computing, along with an increase in government support, is pushing the IoT to the center stage of the global economy.
(A)38 % corporate leaders forecast that the IoT would have a “major impact in most markets and most industries” within the next three years, and an additional 40 % said it would have “some impact on a few markets or industries.” Only 15 % felt that the IoT would have only “a big impact for only a small number of global players.”
(B)75 % global companies are exploring or using the IoT in their businesses to some extent.
(C)40 % CEOs, CFOs, and other C-suite level respondents say they have “a formal meeting or conversation about the IoT at least once a month.”
(D)30 % corporate leaders: IoT will “unlock new revenue opportunities for existing products/services.” 29% : IoT “will inspire new working practices or business processes.” 23%: IoT “will change our existing business model or business strategy.” 23 %: IoT “will spark a new wave of innovation.”
(E) > 60 % executives “agree that companies that are slow to integrate the IoT will fall behind the competition.”
The central message in The Economist survey is that most corporate leaders are convinced that the potential productivity gains of using the Internet of Things across the value chain are so compelling and disruptive to the old ways of doing business that they have no choice but to try to get ahead of the game by embedding their business operations in the IoT platform.
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