Tim O'Reilly and the future of the Internet of Things. He rambles on for half an hour. It looks like he's just telling disconnected alpha-geek anecdotes, in his customary, avuncular, visionary fashion. What Tim's really doing is throwing lit matches into his network. And boy is he the guru when it comes to doing that. He can't outguess the future and deliver a single coherent narrative, that's not even possible. So, he's launching a flotilla of paper boats into the ol' geek pond there. And off they go, skittering in all directions.
The quality of the buzzwords here is just second to none.
"real-time cloud-based intelligence delivered to mobile apps"
"the column that is fullest is the one that's labelled OTHER, and that is the one hope that I have"
There are maybe a hundred of those in this speech. It's not just the words, either. It's the ideas. In the chess game of the Internet Operating System, each player tries to give away that which is important to somebody else. There are a lot of people in government thinking like a platform provider.
"Some really great things happening there – a long way to go."
