*"... We could right now be in the middle of a shift on the scale of the Industr...

"... We could right now be in the middle of a shift on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. Or not; always hard to tell from so close. But there is certainly something interesting happening ..."

Internet of things? ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things which Bruce Stirling has been writing about (Shaping Things, 2005) ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spime#Novels Ipso? (IP for Smart Objects) ~ http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Ipso+ip+smart+objects IP enabled things when IPV6 rolls out? These ideas are related to this article ~ https://hackernews.hn/item?id=333542