Reading Report of Chapter 2

  At first time I heard the Internet of Things, I have no idea about it because I don’t know what it indicated to in Chines. Fortunately, I get it and become more clear about other concepts of this item such as IP/TCP, Bluetooth, Wi- Fi and mesh network after I read chapter 2.

  It also made me think of the common phenomenon of modern society around the world that we always want to connect to Wi-Fi whenever we go anywhere. It is a little ridiculous that some people would feel lonely and frustrated without Wi-Fi which calls “information dependency syndrome” though there are so many people around them whom they could communicate with.  

  In my opinion, a mature system of Internet of Things could do most of the menial work for us. Our house will always be the perfect temperature, no matter the heat of the day or what room we live in; our lights will turn on when we need them and turn off when we leave the room just like the presentation of make-space in Knoxville we have witnessed; our cars will start and turn on the air condition in advance before we open the door, even automatic driving; our smart refrigerator will know what we need and submit the list directly to the grocery store for automatic delivery.

  It will be more convenient that we can spend our time on doing things we liked instead of those menial work and we won’t worry about the system would make wrong decisions for us because their operations are depended on the analyze of data collected when we used those devices before.

  But, if we are getting accustomed to the IoT just like Wi-Fi, how can we do those menial work when it is broken down? If we could remember how to do that? If we may catch the “IoT dependency syndrome”?

  In a nutshell, technology is used to improve our lives, not to control us. We should use it carefully and individually with self-introspection.