*Straight from the keyboard of David Orban, who is quite a busy guy, as transhuman visionaries go, anyhow.
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"The number of nodes, or at least their order of magnitude, was also the subject of some friendly banter, and easy self-irony, as the various speakers competed to quote larger and larger numbers: John Woodget, worldwide director of telecommunications at Intel opened with 15 billion, and other speakers quoted other numbers, but all were apparently swept aside by that by Justin Rattner, CTO of Intel, not present at the conference, who with 7 trillion nodes in the IoT network in ten years, is apparently the current champion of this strange sport.
"Woodget presented fairly rich and elaborate slides on the way Intel sees the development of the field, predicting a tenfold increase in machine-to-machine (M2M) communication applications in five years, with 70% of them on wireless personal area network (WPAN) connections.
"The business model for WPAN M2M applications still has to be found, but the example of SMS text messaging, worth tens of billions of dollars per year, shows that it is possible...."
