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Here’s a scenario, picture yourself sitting at your computer, thirst-scrolling Instagram on your phone, putting off responding back to emails, handling tasks, and receiving those juicy dopamine hits. You know, just another day in the office for you.

While emails are piling up, notifications on your phone and computer are going off, the watercooler farts a water bubble, and your smartwatch is telling you to get up and start moving or you’ll be one step closer to God’s waiting room. I’m not talking about Florida.

During your quest to come upon the perfect thirst pic so you can quickly run to the restroom and get a handle on your developing situation, have you ever stopped to question “how are all of these devices connected?”

You say no? You wouldn’t be alone in that regard; many people just use devices and don’t really give a second thought as to how they work. We just use them and take them for what they are and their purpose in our daily lives.

However, it’s time to answer the question you didn’t ask because well, I’m a scriptwriter and somehow through the powers that be I find this enjoyable to entertain and inform you so without stealing candy from a baby, I bequeath to you the connection between all of the devices we use throughout our daily lives and what would life be like if we didn’t have them.

Which I could tell you right now, if we didn’t have them then you would still be thirst-scrolling, the personals section in the newspaper was Instagram back in the day. I’m not proud of that knowledge.

Insta-Connections

This connection, what is it called? You may have heard of it in passing or never at all. The term Internet of Things, better known as IoT, broadly means the collective network of connected devices and the technology that facilitates communication between devices and the cloud.

These devices could range from ordinary household objects to sophisticated industrial tools. The phrase is used to describe the ever-expanding network of smart devices used by sometimes not-so-smart people that connect to the internet.

However, devices that you wouldn’t typically expect to connect to the internet, for example, laptops and smartphones are not typically described as IoT devices. Why? Because anything that requires human interaction or control is not considered a part of IoT.

The concept first IoT emerged as a serious proposition in the 1980s – 1990s, which was pretty much a wild time to be alive. The earliest projects included a connected vending machine, but progress was hindered by early chips being cumbersome and objects struggling to communicate with each other effectively. If you have been in a struggling relationship, you have an idea of what this feels like.

I wonder if the vending machines had the same experience they did in Maximum Overdrive, you know, attempting to hand out people’s expiration dates with Pepsi product placement. That symbolism hits way too hard.

IoT Connecting Us

Z-Daddy, what do we use that is connected to IoT? Again, pending robot uprise experience inbound. Here’s your list of things to look at and jokingly say to yourself “there’s no way that could speed up my expiration”; dishwashers, refrigerators, smart TVs, smartphones, cars and trucks, heating and cooling systems, fitness machines, and trackers are some examples of IoT.

Most of these products you have experienced personally but keep in mind, while your chances of receiving your expiration date by one of these items are low, it’s never zero.

Generally, IoT is most abundant in manufacturing, transportation, and utility organizations, making use of sensors and other IoT moreover, it has also found use cases for organizations within such as water resource monitoring in agriculture, healthcare, infrastructure, and home automation industries, leading some organizations toward digital transformation. Ja (Yes), we’re pretty much one Elon tweet away.

While the idea of IoT has been in existence for a long time, a collection of recent advances in a number of different technologies has made it practical. Access to low-cost, low-power sensor technology, connectivity, cloud computing platforms, machine learning, and analytics. Imagine, all of this taking place while you spend your days thirst-scrolling.  

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93 and Lonely

Now I can hear you yelling at some of the items listed earlier, saying “THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!” You didn’t know but you were going to give the job away anyway. I would take a self-driving lawn mower than have to go out and mow my lawn in the hot sun any day.

Having my 93-year-old neighbor staring at me from her living room window while I’m all sweaty working, I mean she’s nice and offers a glass of lemonade and cookies, but Z-Daddy can’t be that daddy. Although… she has Medicare and might have a decent life policy so I may be able to make it a short-term situation. Older people need love too, don’t judge.

Now back to sticking it to IoT and not my neighbor, there is a massive market for intelligent electronics, and over the past few years, IoT has become one of the most important technologies of the 21st century. And years ago, we thought conjuring fire was a big deal.

Now that we can connect everyday objects, IoT enables companies to automate processes and reduce labor costs. A quick word to the wise, if your job is simple enough for a computer to do it, you might want to start looking elsewhere for work.

It also cuts down on waste and improves service delivery, making it less expensive to manufacture and deliver goods, as well offer transparency in customer transactions. Again, these are all keywords for you being replaceable if you haven’t caught on by now.

In short, technology is making life great by making things easier, the downside is it’s making us lazier.

Developing Years Behind

Do you want to know if you can hop into the field of IoT and help technology grow? You don’t want to go to school for a four-year degree and live off ramen and depression or have to meet someone in the alleyway to provide something strange for some change.

I have some good news; you don’t have to. Well, you still might have to meet someone in the alleyway if you need the change or a source of inspiration but for the most part, you don’t have to spend your best years trying to get a degree.

There are many jobs to select and since technology is growing like your developing restroom situation mentioned earlier, going to school would actually see you behind instead of ahead. Saw what I did there? You could detour to other avenues of learning like completing online courses or attending meetups, just stay away from people wanting to link up in alleyways.

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