{"id":18,"date":"2010-03-04T04:18:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T04:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2010-03-03T04:21:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T04:21:57","slug":"1000-wireless-devices-per-person-by-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/1000-wireless-devices-per-person-by-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"1000 Wireless Devices Per Person (By 2017?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14742615\">writes<\/a> (apparently quoting <a href=\"http:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/ictresults\/index.cfm?section=news&amp;tpl=article&amp;id=90199\">this pronouncement<\/a>) that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By 2017 there could be 7 trillion wirelessly connected devices and objects &#8212; about 1000 per person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I think their timing is off: I can believe that the hardware can be built by 2017, but not that we figured out how to manage or use them. But regardless of the exact date, it&#8217;s going to happen sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p>Look around where you are sitting right now. With this vision, in a few years, at least a hundred should be in sight right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist writes (apparently quoting this pronouncement) that: By 2017 there could be 7 trillion wirelessly connected devices and objects &#8212; about 1000 per person. Personally, I think their timing is off: I can believe that the hardware can be built by 2017, but not that we figured out how to manage or use them.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices","category-hardware","tag-smart-dust","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}