In a world where anything can start, maintain and be a critical attractor in conversation (Bleecker 2006, p1), how will we know when we are interacting with human. It is al really sci fi and seems unrealistic but after the video that was played in the lecture about the futuristic networked home, it seems anything will be possible.
As Ted pointed out in the lecture, there are now more things on the internet than people and that number will be sure to sky rocket once everyone adopts the ability to talk to their home/car/other. So where do we draw the line? Granted there are some very cool ideas on display. The ability of an alarm clock to know your bus is running late so there is no need to rush and lets you sleep in 5 minutes, to come home and already have a meal being precooked and the TV pre-programmed. It would certainly take the hassle out of things. But what if objects start to feel mistreated? Will that be possible?
Say for instance a car is networked to thousands of other cars and learns how their owners change their oil regularly and reads the car next door's tweet "just got washed :P" and get angry at their owner? For a chair to tweet "geez just got sat on by a big one". Now that would be a hilarious world. But certainly a dangerous one.
Bleecker, J. 2006, 'Why Things Matter: A Manifesto for networked objects', near futurelaboratory, accessed 22/10/2011 http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/files/WhyThingsMatter.pdf
Mitew, T. 2011, Case Study: Case: The internet of things: from networked objects to ubiquitous computing, DIGC202, Global Networks, University Of Wollongong, delivered 24 October.
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