InsightaaS: Who doesn’t love a curmudgeonly cynic? Well, there are probably many people in that category, but Across the Net is cynic-friendly, and we tend to cast a kindly eye on curmudgeons as well, especially when they are tweaking conventional wisdom. It’s natural, then, that we would be fans of the perspective that author/analyst Jason Bloomberg, managing partner of Intellyx (“Intellyx is the first and only advisory, training, and industry analysis firm focused on architecting agility for the enterprise”) published recently on “seven reasons why the Internet of Things is doomed.” 
In it, he takes aim at some of the key issues that impede IoT adoption today – security, privacy, the need to assemble ecosystems of components and software, lack of a ‘killer app,’ the need for enterprise customers to continue to invest in core technology rather than the “frosting” of digital transformation – and two issues that may be more difficult to quantify, but could well be even more pernicious than the other five: “digital fatigue” with hyper-connected lives (“Can’t we just download a big-ass OFF switch so we can hear ourselves freakin’ THINK for once?”) and the inherent tension between individuals’ desire to control their own data, and the profit potential associated with corporate control of individual data.
Read the entire article at http://www.insightaas.com/jason-bloomberg-seven-reasons-why-the-internet-of-things-is-doomed/.
