No matter that we carry little slabs of coms tech around in our pockets that make the communicators in the original Star Trek look like something out of a steampunk fantasy.

Tarifpartner, Sozialversicherung und Bundesregierung schweigen diese Missstände aus, decken sie mit salbungsvollen Worten zu und reagieren nicht auf die neuen Bedingungen am Arbeitsmarkt.

My greatest pleasure in reading science fiction is to experience that [cognitive dissonance] and be lost, completely unsure about what's going on in the narrative. But by hanging in and analyzing the information that the author is giving me it starts to click. For me the pleasure is when it starts to make sense.

"We can’t continue to craft firewall and access rules based on IP addresses. Not feasible and ultimately, it’s not secure or accurate enough. We need ID-based access rules that not only consider who but what. Not just Bob, but Bob’s phone. Not just Bill, but Bill’s refrigerator. Not just Alice, but Alice’s television. ... A traditional IP-based perimeter just isn’t going to be enough to meet the new requirements for application delivery….”

“The Internet Of Things is coming. Rejoice! …Mostly. It will open our collective eyes to petabytes of real-time data, which we will turn into new insights and efficiencies. It will doubtless save lives. Oh, yes: and it will subtly redefine ownership as we know it. You will no longer own many of the most expensive and sophisticated items you possess. You may think you own them. But you’ll be wrong.