A meeting organized by physicists laid out the technology needed to network the physical world.
Some weird stuff is online these days. From a swallowed pill, to a sheet beneath a rustling baby, to a New England tomato, each can now transmit data about its surroundings to the cloud.
Welcome to the brave new world of the Internet of Things (IoT) in which networks of sensors relay information about the physical world to “smart” machines that analyze and interpret the data. The IoT could revolutionize the way factories are run, how health care is delivered, and the future of transportation.
Congratulations! You’ve just accomplished something I never managed to do — earn a college degree.
Between your commencement speaker and every aunt and uncle at your graduation party, I am sure you are getting a lot of advice. At the risk of piling on, I thought I would share a few thoughts.
New college graduates often ask me for career advice. I was lucky to be in my early 20s when the digital revolution was just getting underway, and Paul Allen and I had the chance to help shape it. (Which explains my lack of a college degree: I left school because we were afraid the revolution would happen without us.)
If I were starting out today and looking for the same kind of opportunity to make a big impact in the world, I would consider three fields.
