I have news for you. We will all not be virtualised in a virtual memory of a virtual machine somewhere in the virtual cloud.

A sigh of relief! and rightly so after constantly being inundated with the latest buzz words that’d have us believe that anytime now our brains will be upload in the metaverse. No we are not there yet conversely we can’t say the same to a machine which perhaps rather not get involved in our sweaty, bloody and dusty world of physical beings that we take for granted. The interface that a computer, AI or otherwise would use to the physical world is what Internet-Of-Things is all about. IOT for the most part are the ears, eyes, nose and sensations of a computer program, much like our own five senses, and this is precisely what Kevin Ashton meant when he coined the term, whilst linking the Proctor & Gamble supply chain to the Internet and I quote “In the twentieth century, computers were brains without senses – they only knew what we told them.”