IIC Aims to Drive IoT Adoption by Empowering End Users
Earlier this year, Gartner released its latest hype cycle for the Internet of Things. IoT itself was on the descent toward the so-called “trough of disillusionment,” bookended to the left by IoT platforms and to the right by autonomous vehicles, which is nearing the bottom of the trough.
While there is value in such models in helping business professionals gauge the risk of adopting emerging technologies and IoT adoption in particular, as the Polish–American scholar Alfred Korzybski summarized: “The map is not the territory.” Similarly, Soley and the IIC generally prefer to rely on pragmatic experimentation to test concepts related to emerging technologies.