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The Internet of Things could be great, if only we didn’t let the tech giants own it
Famous sci-fi author Bruce Sterling said it well in his non-fiction essay The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things: The internet of things … is neither about internet nor things, but a battle … for the control of property. Too dramatic for you? Well, it’s prime holiday shopping season, and so I went browsing […]
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When things go (not quite) web native — thoughts on Mozilla IoT
Updated 2018-11-07 with a few clarifications from Kathy Giori on the Mozilla IoT team. The Internet-of-Things landscape is a mess. Everybody is trying to build the dominating IoT castle in the cloud, collecting (and almost never giving back) as much user data as possible; user wishes and needs be damned. It’s no surprise that consumer […]