Council: The Emergence of an IoT Think Tank

DRANK

...My choice was between organizing a protest against the coming Matrix or finding the key people, resources, and capabilities to perform a “Baron von Münchhausen” by lifting the entire frame of decision-making onto a new plane with all the (hidden) potentialities of ultrademocratic bottom-up citizen agency in the protocols of the Internet spilling over into the real world. By hyping IoT, industry would realize too late it would go on a course where hardware and connectivity would become commodities, and institutions and governments would keep believing they could maintain control over sign and signifier, data and identity, people and machines. So I set up Council.