The Internet of Things

This piece was originally featured in Let’s Know Things, a free, irregularly published email in which I discuss a topic and do my best to explain it concisely in historical, present, and future context.

A piece in WIRED magazine focusing on the company IFTTT (If This, Then That) discusses a larger trend, and one that may become mainstream sooner than originally predicted.

The trend in question is often referred to as The Internet of Things — a secondary internet (either independent of the inter...