Self Driving Cars to dominate roads by 2030

Just saw this from LinkedIn. Kevin Ashton, the man who invented the expression ‘Internet of Things,’ foresees that by 2030, self-driving cars will be the norm.

Self driving cars being the norm in 15 years is not so surprising given that self driving cars from Tesla, Google, and Apple are already testing their own prototypes. In an FT article, Tesla has promised self-driving cars by 2018, Nissan has promised self-driving cars by 2020. Traditional car companies like Toyota, Volvo, and Continental also have experimented with self driving cars. Not to mention a bunch of startups like Auro Robotics, and countless more. Given the nature of competition in a free, open and technology-driven market, it is quite conceivable that self driving cars will be the norm in 15 years.

Its not flying cars, but it will do. For now.

(Btdubs, who is this Kevin Ashton and why have I not heard of him before?)

Harvard Business Review on IOT: Its all about personal augmentation

HBR claims that "they seeing a more human-centric category of IoT activity starting to emerge. It’s less about automation and more about personal augmentation; less about individual devices and more about “living services” that let people program and connect smart devices however they want."

That actually makes sense to me. IOT cant just be about making things faster and repetitive. It has to make life meaningful and enjoyable as well

The HBR article is here