The Internet of Things: Dr. John Barrett at TEDxCIT

Dr. John Barrett is Head of Academic Studies at the Nimbus Centre for Embedded Systems Research at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) and Group Director of the Centre's Smart Systems Integration Research Group. His research is focused on packaging, miniaturisation and embedding of smart systems in materials, objects and structures. He has been active in Irish and European R&D projects in the areas of packaging and systems integration for almost 30 years and has over 100 publications in topics related to his field.
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[@alexw4827]

It is 2019 now and during the past 7 years, which is when this video was uploaded, more and more things he said became true. We pretty much created an alternative world called the internet, which is invisible to our eyes and yet is even more important than reality in some parts of our life. Everything will be connected together at some point in time because it simplfies our lifes and takes work off our shoulders. But this comfort is not free, nor do we fully understand the consequences this will have: We become dependent on it. Depending on something makes us vulnerable, just imagine a doctor who has to look up the steps to perform a surgery because they are too complicated to remember: If for some reason the information is gone or the internet is unavailable, we are completely unable to continue the lives we lived with the IOT. Comfort will become neccessity in the future and therefore a big weakness and risk for our lives.

[@Corion2121]

A doctor should always refer to their textbooks before performing a task. That’s what good doctors do. 😐

[@Corion2121]

My entire home is smart: alarm system, AC, lights, even my pool. It’s quite marvelous! 😁👍🏿

[@curbcobain]

"where are my keys?", "where is my child?", "where is my soul?"

[@lydiagiwa2178]

Curb Cobain lol

[@johanclaeys1]

I do agree. The IoT has already started ! One of the best talks explaining Internet Of Things and how it will affect our lives. #IOT #internetofthings

[@MirzaYawarBaig]

We have a choice fight it or master it. If you want to know what is the likely result of either choice, just look at the many times we - people - faced this choice. See what happened to those who fought technology and those who decided to master it. Those who fear live in fear. Those who master fear - leverage their future.

[@hulkito852]

Mirza Yawar Baig excellent response

[@Moosemoose1]

So youre just saying to accept it like a defeated dog then? Thats a pathetic response

[@clintonoshea]

Fascinating, but very scary too. It's hacky to say it, but we're living in '1984' and this will only make things far more invasive. And we're doing it to ourselves, completely willingly, because of 'convenience'. This isn't 'tinfoil hat' speculation - this is all very real. I recommend watching private investigator Steven Rambam's talks at the HOPE conventions, just in case you're not convinced.

[@sw0rdf1sh2326]

Clinton O'Shea Well, in that case, it's more Brave New World isn't it?

[@lyndacrockett2863]

get ready for the machines to take over

[@7th_CAV_Trooper]

Dr. Barrett is a central planning advocate.

[@anacornejo5878]

Very interesting, Dr. John made this topic very smooth we all can tell he is passionate about it. However this reminds me to the Jhonny Deep movie, "Trascender", watch it. I just hope the ads can be avoided and that we can still select our privacy settings, and most of all, every time my health insurance increases that my salary increases too!

[@gusttk]

Internet of Things is the ultimate concept we have today for improvements. It will not only improve our life style, but can also be used with nature, industry, science and daily routine office activities. this "thing" is another big step for a new reality.

[@Arnseb]

This sounds fine and dandy, except in the current way the governments are evolving I fear it will become Big Brother Delux edition...

[@founkee]

Instant like for the Deluxe Edition xD

[@titusadeodatus674]

Wisdom, for the external stuff, is a ressource based economy as defined by the Zeitgeist movement, TZM. Saying one single word is not enough. Thank you very much.

[@mike42441]

Wow, a stack of 1" books here to Pluto and back 80 times would be over 31.4 quadrillion books..a little light reading!

[@johnzoidberg6177]

NSA's Wet dream

[@varundharmavaram8006]

haha

[@mondavi14]

Sierra Wireless a leader and pure play for IoT/M2M space. The future is bright for them.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

Please learn about Resource Based Economy!

[@ahappytravis2176]

IOTA is going to be huge!

[@vidak.228]

This guy is a prophet

[@mrsamuelwatson12]

POKEMON GO, HE WAS RIGHT!

[@Koderfacts]

Augmented Reality 👍

[@saimeghana2261]

I guess it has more cons than pros.

[@DrFlexful]

Only 4 years ago. The future he is taking about is now!

[@LossyLossnitzer]

As a person that likes Tech I think the Internet of things is just a big security hole that will leave me spending all my life patching and upgrading to the next IOT n.0 product.

[@stefanosettignano6730]

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[@donaldtrumpceo]

Brilliant example of how our future could be turned upside down.

[@rudysennhenn]

say good by to privacy. In my opinion some things should not be known by all. I also can tell you this, nothing will be going in or on this body.

[@ErickaOrion]

It's hard to think about IoT, without thinking about BI. To achieve the vision by 2030, we need a lot of BI and much more of an open mind.

[@felixgrovitfinance]

Fantastic presentation...very informative

[@cathyparker8565]

Thank you for this post

[@fishface6247]

All the technology in the world and he can't have a wireless headset

[@birdofprey108]

it is wireless headset, but with receiver and battery back on his belt. so that audio system can connect to many headsets, each one working on a dedicated frequency.

[@vinayanv]

Interesting and informative on what is this most widely used present day usage called the internet of things.

[@TelecommunicationsNews]

Interesting talk. IOT is going to be more and more part of our lives, both in industry and the home. Personally a fan of LoRaWAN for the sensor to Internet gateway part.

[@humphrex]

it sounds more like a horror vision

[@Koderfacts]

Depends how you look at it

[@samdol6786]

K4yr4h yu

[@nickrivera420]

This is a very revolutionary concept and a great presentation! This "internet of things" is a manifestation of the true interconnection of the world and maybe even the universe! I just pray that when we fully jump to this "internet of things" lifestyle, we will also make the jump to a communist type hybrid of capitalism at least. I would be disgusted if I had an increase of life insurance expense at the very moment I need medical attention. I've already noticed personalized advertising through my iphone and laptop recently. Hopefully, by then, there will be a new form of currency too...

[@tdog999100]

as if were not watched and controlled enough in our society

[@bighands69]

You statement makes no sense at all.

[@tdog999100]

bighands69 try using more than 1 brain cell

[@DatBossTV]

StrangerThanFiction DizzyTV Try using a single punctuation mark.

[@tdog999100]

ArcaneArts try not being a dick

[@OneChanForOneMan]

StrangerThanFiction DizzyTV Please bring bigger and more reliable arguments.

[@JD-di8mg]

great talk! I see he probably collaborates or have read Bruce Sterlings "Shaping things"

[@bkhbblkbbbhjklblhbhljkbjhkb]

Scary but exciting.

[@arowana0094]

Very good video

[@lokeshkanithi]

Already we have attached our mobiles to our life too tightly. Managing 3000 things will make the human crazy. But with proper regulations, this needs to be implemented.

[@fytubevw]

What constantly amazes me, is that we are presenting superb future things and the audio is so many times fucked up. (In the video recordings) :) But interesting stuff anyways.

[@Inaflap]

I was half expecting that capstone to have a big eye in the middle.

[@Dan_is_a_liar]

People will rise up against this, guarantee you that much.

[@creativetechnosoftsystems1070]

I Like it. Great speech

[@FedJimSmith]

Sure moon, or perhaps mars would be a suitable data center for us to hold the enormous information.

[@FedJimSmith]

We humans will come coming back to things that are 'obsolete' for instance, instagram, and horse back riding. No matter how advanced we got. So things like keys won't vanish, even if NFC based security replaces it.

[@amirkazemi2517]

i thought i was losing it when he made that 1993 pop up on that plaque!

[@JeremyWeiwmin]

The Internet of Things........I will focu on it in the future.

[@MXvsATVnovice]

What happens when the internet of things is achieved and along with that comes the Singularity?

[@user-df8wr5qf1k]

The concept is great, however, there is a need for ECO system to define the N2N protocols to master all devices and profiles. (don't forget security aspects as it can become a key point to your solution).

[@MikeKay1978]

the technology and the potential is amazing but as many of you reacted on this can be very dangerous.

[@michaelmcnaughton1535]

There will be a new, parallel industry rising up, centered around how to avoid using the IOT for ANYthing.

[@gabrielwilberscheid952]

Good luck because anything with electricity will be connected in the near future. Better buy a gun and move into the Montana mountains.

[@blindox]

The government likes that!

[@mrherobrine_15]

he predicted the metaverse

[@JruHoliday]

Now where am going to watch porn without my devices or house asking me, "Sir, do you require more Kleenex"?

[@jamesseymour3202]

Borg is a collective proper noun for a fictional alien race that appears as recurring antagonists in various incarnations of the Star Trek franchise. The Borg is a collection of species that have been turned into cybernetic organisms functioning as drones of the Collective, or the hive. A pseudo-race, dwelling in the Star Trek universe, the Borg force other species into their collective and connect them to "the hive mind"; the act is called assimilation and entails violence, abductions, and injections of microscopic machines called nanoprobes. The Borg's ultimate goal is "achieving perfection". Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

[@mrherobrine_15]

He sounds like jacksepticeye

[@sridhara8903]

Why IPV6 for things? Most of the things require light weight solution.

[@TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

Good presentation, technology can be used both to liberate or to enslave, depends who wields societal power, all concerned or the elite. Bentham's Panopticon is a good example, people radically alter behavior if they think they're being observed, that's a well documented fact.

[@sulekhachandra9643]

superb

[@Bader.mobarak]

Fahad brought me here

[@AlexGarcia-is9ui]

Me too!! lol

[@johndawson6057]

internet of things = NSA +

[@Ishijah1]

Does this solves poverty in the world?

[@Abdulla131]

Poverty will never ends since humans are greedy by nature.

[@malharjajoo7393]

This is not really a good idea ... We are trying to optimize everything a bit too much. This will lead to a lot of conflicts in the near future.

[@meyoume8]

the world is going to shit!! Slightly we don't feel it. It will be no life no more !!! I'm not paranoid, I just allow myself to think now that I can do by myself

[@romanromey4043]

First of all the base of controller( settings and properties) should be changed or updated.

[@igor9412]

Thats is not good. I love technology, but we are already disconnect from nature too much and now this crazy idea as IoT.

[@barryobriengolf]

Fantastic

[@education759]

I am a Phd students and very interested in this subject. Would like to write my dissertation on this. Wondering if anyone has any suggestion??? Appreciated

[@Ekzidino]

IoT scares me

[@ToddAndelin]

I think his ending is wrong. Sometimes things work best when we dont work together.

[@PuneetChhikara]

I am tired of listening to the hyperbole surrounding IoT.

[@dominiquehudson8077]

+Puneet Chhikara Hyperbole?? Not even, big data and the Internet of things is currently happening. We are moving from the digital media age into big data age. If you think this is a hyperbole, then it is clear that you have not read enough scholarly papers of big data and the Internet of things.

[@JruHoliday]

It seems like you've been reading to much of it, my friend.

[@alexw4827]

There will be no way around IoT

[@Moosemoose1]

@@alexw4827 destroy the server warehouses and goodbye IoT, dont act like its some immortal thing that cant be changed.

[@valara1699]

10:47 Is....Is this from 2002? Guys. Guyyyyyyyysss

[@redirishmanxlt]

Why did the audio go from, a man speaking in an auditorium, to a person recording himself through an audio channel in a computer? And why did you sync it? At least when Kung Fu flicks are overdubbed with english, they still sound like they're in the right environment. And why would you need to overdub a lecture that was already recorded? And how come nobody is COMMENTING on this!!??

[@alexw4827]

wondered the same lmao

[@stedunn563]

Can't see this happening in our life time, there are currently so much that could go wrong with this, and never mind privacy problems, it just won't happen apart from us geeks who create because we love to, the raspberry pi is the start of a,big movement making electronics open to,everybody

[@AravindanUmashankar]

Vision

[@Tybro94]

The sound sucks on this video.

[@thebytegrill]

we can manage everything better if we first start with prosecuting the bankers

[@mimzboga6603]

Geez...I wish I could talk to this guy. I have limited IT knowledge but I've had this idea in my head for a while...If I could give it to him or those in the industry. It would revolutionize treatment and control of Tuberculosis...even eliminate it I believe.

[@OntheLemo]

See Dublin Company , Decawave ( here on youtube ) IOT .

[@andygremett3140]

so when does Skynet become self aware? With the latest talk about AI combined with IoT it should be interesting. The comments about systems allocating human access to resources or having these systems make decisions about ensuring everyone gets equal access to resources sound scary.

[@webstersknowledge]

It is all part of the big plan of human control by the you know who to basically ensure we don't get out of line while trying to present itself as our little technology pets who are only here to help us. Sure that makes sense hey.

[@lillygirl5614]

This is terrifying!

[@tahaha]

He predicted Pokemon GO

[@OrbitOnceAround]

IOT = ctOS

[@875design]

whats the name of the song at the beginning?

[@gearyhinolan3517]

Darude Sandstorm :)

[@edwardsouth1711]

If people's indifference to the reality of what is really going on in the world could be transformed into energy, we'd have enough power to stop this madness.

[@oneproductionman]

What practical use? Marketing and business ofcourse $_$

[@LossyLossnitzer]

You want your washing machine or dryer to go on when energy is cheap. At the moment cheap imports of goods are making things catch fire so yes your house might be warmer and you washing dry when you are 10 miles from home, because your house may be on fire. Your Car might be more efficient because the car company has the ability to look at your car whilst you are driving and make an appointment to repair but your auto driver assist car might not negotiate the corner because your car CPU is melting sending out viruses/malware to the rest of the world. Let us use our eyes and ears to check if we need something fixed. My Car still drives, my washing/drying still gets done and I do not need my heating on 10 minutes before I get home - just leave your jumper on till it warms up.

[@xl0l0l0l0lx]

OH MY! "If I know where the citizens of my smart city are, what they are up to, what their health is..." "I can look after the INDIVIDUAL health, safety and security of all MY citizens." "In the interest of better society" This is the scary kind of verbiage i worry about. Does this guy even hear himself?!

[@saikumarml7]

I'm doing a ppt on this topic .do suggest me some information

[@mytech3833]

Is he from the future?

[@jefferex1]

The internet of things: where your every move and action is monitored by the government. 1984 george orwell

[@misterbutcher8795]

lmao thank you! this guy works for the gov look at him!

[@MrDucimus]

Welcome to Skynet...

[@lewisnorth1188]

Aiden Pearce will be happy

[@vijaylalvijayyadav8942]

this good idia

[@titusadeodatus674]

The Internet of things is cool. It is what we want for social needs, food, shelter, health, in a ressource based economy as defined by the Zeitgeist movement, TZM. But we need to talk about access, who will get the life enhancing devices? If you think everyone, think again. There needs to be a solution that will give provide access to those things, independently of your economic value. Because this one will be shrinking, just as the number of devices connected to the Internet will increase. Sometimes providing stuff is not everything, if people can't afford it. Think about that, you ultra capitalism people who still think, today, 2015, that money will solve all our issues. Please stop dream and wake up to our sad reality.

[@xl0l0l0l0lx]

My favorite two words ... Common Good .... RUN!

[@mrswidget]

What a wonderful world we could have. Would not a "tripod" like Captain Kirk change the world for ambassadors, for example, to be able to meet someone and know his/her interests, abilities, and attitudes. WARS COULD BE AVERTED!

[@CJtheGen-X]

If this is a live lecture, great ... otherwise release a "narrated" version. This half and half gives a total sense of "You-have-no-credibility" Don't lecture on technology and then screw it up.

[@roberthansen2008]

I do not care who is sitting in a chair. Why should I care?

[@Xixo]

tech support!!!

[@SloppyProductionsNZ]

This system should never be used for marketing. Then you will have Utopia

[@christopherlew4988]

The real world becoming part of the game. EG Pokemon Go?

[@VishalKumar-jh9cj]

We're already being controlled by technology in our everyday life. I wonder what will happen as Internet of things advances.