{"id":725,"date":"2014-05-09T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:55:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:55:51","slug":"the-internet-of-things-that-go-bump-in-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"The Internet of Things&#8230;that Go Bump in the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/computer.howstuffworks.com\/10-nightmare-scenarios-from-internet-of-things.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/ab\/Internet_of_Things.jpg\/243px-Internet_of_Things.jpg\" alt=\"An artist's rendering of the Internet of Things. \" width=\"243\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawing by wilgengebroed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As sci-fi and techno-horror flicks are fond pointing out, the future is chock-full of things that want to kill us. Yep, our own technological progeny want to consign us to the great bit-bucket in the sky but, hey, at least we were warned, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, sure, if we had any intention of heeding these cinematic Cassandras. Think about it: <em>The Terminator<\/em> warns us about Skynet, so what do we do? We set\u00a0to work on autonomous drones. <em>Christine<\/em>\u00a0 frightens us with a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury, so we get busy designing self-driving cars. It\u2019s like we <em>want<\/em> to die.<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s the Internet of Things: Trillions of everyday objects exchanging data, everywhere, all the time, with only the most basic human oversight.\u00a0Can&#8217;t wait to see how that one turns out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/computer.howstuffworks.com\/10-nightmare-scenarios-from-internet-of-things.htm \" target=\"_blank\">10 Nightmare Scenarios From the Internet of Things<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As sci-fi and techno-horror flicks are fond pointing out, the future is chock-full of things that want to kill us. Yep, our own technological progeny want to consign us to the great bit-bucket in the sky but, hey, at least we were warned, right? Well, sure, if we had any intention of heeding these cinematic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Internet of Things&#8230;that Go Bump in the Night<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,76,12,63,94,66,46,20,290,415,13,30],"tags":[24,519,815,817,818,814,16,737,115,746,813,816,145,21,725],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto","category-computing","category-consumer","category-culture","category-engineering","category-forensics","category-gadgets","category-internet","category-law-2","category-psychology","category-technology","category-top-10","tag-behavior","tag-crime","tag-cyberstalking","tag-cyberterror","tag-cyberwarfare","tag-deep-web","tag-economics","tag-google-glass","tag-nanotechnology","tag-nsa","tag-privacy","tag-rfid","tag-smartphones","tag-social-media","tag-stock-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}