I'm really behind the curve! Here I am, wondering whether there's any real reason to "save" time via an Internet of Things connected house, when it turns out that I could be saving so much more. A review of a TED talk from two years ago by Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Lab, and One Laptop per Child, fame, tells us that:
Negroponte says that recent research on "the Internet of Things is tragically pathetic." He says that the idea wasn't just to put an oven control panel on your phone - but to make the oven intelligent. "You want to put the chicken in the oven and it realizes you're cooking it for Nicholas and he likes it this way," Negroponte says.That certainly can save us the time of opening an app in order to give our kitchen instructions for dinner, but putting that chicken in the oven can also be time consuming. I hope that somebody is already working on an app that will take it out of the refrigerator and put it in the oven for us.