Of late we are seeing a concentrated push towards a future where all objects talk to the internet. It’s a powerful movement with implications that go far beyond our current understanding of its value. I’m excited by it. However, I am concerned that it won’t be the utopia that it could be. I fear the system will be designed in such a way, that with all this new data will come a sort of noise that we once never cared about. The banal utterings of the machine.

We live in a world where nearly everyone (we know) talks to the internet; but if we’re honest with ourselves just for a moment, we can see that it’s massively disorganized. A profound cacophony of data. Yet here we are, extracting even more distraction. I hope that we can somehow avoid what we know not to work; and move towards a world devoid of trivial distractions.

I’m always amazed by the world we live in. It’s like nothing any other generation had the opportunity to experience. It takes my breath away. Daily. I can fly into space, live on a desert island, move my life to the south of France or tell somebody I love them from the other side of the world instantly. There is nothing I cannot do. The world has come so far. I feel we’re operating at a rate of unparalleled growth. However, with all of this comes uncertainty, with uncertainty comes concern, naturally.

In closing, the only thing I think I know, is that if we are going to do this we must aim for perfection, and there is no alternative this time.