The Internet of things 13/11/15

                       Deb Roy,the MIT researcher wanted to understand how his baby son learned language. He wired up his house with video cameras and recorded every 8-10 hours a day for 3 years. This footage then gave them the ability to use motion analysis to review what has an affect on his son learning language and the speech environment he's in and how his parents and nanny are having an effect on his learning. Not only did he apply this technique to his own living room, but he then decided to apply this research on the living room of  America. They realised that just the way there were analysing how language connects to events, providing common ground for language for his son, they took TV shows and social media and analysed the language showing how public media effected our language. They started off by analysing tv content and their language and as he did with his son analysed the language, but of the public by just looking at social media. With about 3 billion comments a month they structured events and language used to show data of  the American nation discussing the one thing at the one time, Roy used Obama's speech as an example.(Here is a link of the speech- The birth of a word) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4ce4mexrU
                         It's evident that his speech starts with personal data , his own family and then applies it to the public and the nation, he again goes back to personal, giving us an emotional bond to the story. None of the data was complicated, it was just all information found on social media.
                     
How do we apply big data in our lives?

Social media is one way, we do this ourselves by joining global space such a Facebook and compromising our privacy. The question is though, what is privacy?

Every year since 2007 Pew institute do surveys around the new use of technology. Research found that in the USA 42% of 14-17 year olds didn't know you could make a phone call on a mobile phone because they only used texts or messaging on the internet.

Pew institute surveyed 13-18 year olds and asked "What do they want to do when they grow up?"

• Over 60% answered "rich and famous"
• 52% of them think that they can fulfil this by being on a reality TV show.

It is evident that big data is controlling the flow and data of the world.

The internet of things(IOT)

We have gone from internet in just computers to internet being tagged in objects, the world is now a connected place. However, Is it OK not to be connected? As much as some people don't want to be connected they are anyway. They can't be disconnected in today's society as the whole world's entirely connected. This lifts the notion of the internet being something we can visit but an internet about real things tagged to the internet.


We are living in an entirely connected environment. This is a list of things connected in homes today :

1. Smart appliances
2. smart media
3. Air con.
4. Surround sound systems
5. Central Heating
6. Safeguard
7. Lights and curtains
8. Telephones

Due to how advanced we have become, in 2040 is it estimated that 50% of jobs now will not exist, because of the changing economy. Also by the time we finish Uni (3/4 years) the jobs that we will go to will not be invented, which in a way is really scary but exciting at the same time.

Data all runs on a cloud system, basically data farms. Even though people fear how dangerous and unsafe this sounds, the cloud is the best form of encryption. Without the cloud the internet of things won't work. It's also possible for anyone to get their own personal cloud space, a 2nd level encryption.

How might it play out on our lives? Google glass for example, an amazing invention that I would love to get has affect on our everyday lives. For example, these glasses may disconnect us from the public however it connects us to our own friendship circle on the internet. It's really interesting as it enables you to be in 2 places at the one time, your own virtual space.

Wearables

Fitness- fit-bit bracelet, you record your body measurements etc. and the bracelet measures your calorie intake, steps taken in a day, heart rate, sleeping pattern and further.

Clothing- for example the apple watch, connecting us to the world.

Embedded Tech. -  This is basically embedded media. Stelarc is the best example, he is an Australian Performance artist. He created a 3rd arm and connected it to his nervous system enabling it to work, e also got an ear attached to his arm very strangely.His work is an example of Avont Garde and will be mainstream in the future.

We need to think in the future, as Einstein quoted

"We won't solve the problems we have with the same ideas that created the problem."