Once upon a time people in offices across the world used technology to make themselves more productive. Then, at the end of each day, they went home and left their computers (what we now call devices) behind to rest up for tomorrow’s work.
It sounds archaic – right? Seriously, how did we ever get work done back then? While we didn’t believe our parents’ stories of walking five miles uphill in the snow to get to school, our kids won’t believe that we were once forced to look up information in these massive books called encyclopedias.
We live in the “Internet of things” age in which almost any object can be connected to the Web via Wi-Fi to transmit and/or receive data — from our cars, phones, tablets and houses to consumer-centric objects like scales, cameras, power meters and televisions. We even monitor the health of our kids on apps!
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