Technocracy: Like it or not, the ‘Internet of Things’ is here

My WND Technocracy column this week is about the “Internet of Things.”

How fast will you be traveling down the highway when your car’s self-driving system experiences a “blue screen of death” error?

If you haven’t heard of it — and according to a recent poll, there’s a good chance you haven’t — the IoT is a term applied to the interconnected “smart” devices that put the mundane functions, aspects, and devices in our lives on the Web and communicating with one another.

Of course, the IoT is also why your home appliances’ network connections  could be used to turn them into virus-laden e-mail-spewing slave machines.

Read the full column here in WND News.