The Internet of Things is one of those vacuous labels beloved by the tech industry when it senses that a big new market is taking shape. Like those other current favourites, Big Data and the Cloud, it promises everything and nothing – a tantalising formlessness that hints at infinite possibility, even if it is hard to say exactly who will make money out of it or when.
高科技產業在感知到一個新興的大市場正在成形時,喜歡使用一些空洞的標籤來描述,「物聯網」就是其中之一。與「大數據」和「雲端計算」這些當下廣受歡迎的概念一樣,物聯網承諾帶來的東西既無所不包又空洞無物——它是一種誘人的無形概念,暗示存在無窮的可能性,儘管很難明確指出誰將從這種技術中盈利或者何時盈利。
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