Prof. Sterling's Internet-of-Things Seminar

Trends, Ideas, Tools, Conjectures,† Practices

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Class exercise: here are 150 gnomic slogans, quotations, assessments and speculations about the subject at hand.

Step 1.† Cut these sentences into single strips of paper, as in

Chinese fortune cookies.

Step 2. Mix thoroughly in a heap.

Step 3.† Then assemble them into coherent concepts!† Be sure to sternly reject at least 15 percent of the statements as nonsense, irrelevancies or hype.

Step 4. After assembling the rhetoric into coherent verbal clusters, throw all the words away and draw a picture that communicates a coherent sense of the issues to your clientele.