IoT Is Eating the World: APIs and REST | IoT For All
Considering that 80% of devices will be IoT devices, IoT has the greatest potential to advance society since the Industrial Revolution. It will usher in a world in which all kinds of things are interconnected, smart, communicating, and improving our quality of life. But why is it that IoT still feels shallow, consumeristic, and focused mainly on “1st world” gadgets that are more of a nice to have? Just as software has transformed industries, I now believe that it’s IoT that is eating the world through data-spouting devices connected to the Internet. Here everything gets connected. We are currently in a growth spurt: the migration of analog functions monitoring and managing the physical world to digital functions involving communications and software.