Now, when five G comes along and almost every device is going to be connected to the Internet, that number is going to increase. Can you just imagine how much we are going to be relying on the Internet to just be there? It also pushes the Internet service into the category of must have necessary service like your power service or your water service. As far as I'm concerned, my personal opinion, I love it
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:45
I don't have Alexa or anything like that. And Siri, drives me nuts. But for me, there are times I would like to just put it all away. I wish I could just get rid of my phone and my computer and my Apple watch and everything for a few days and just have nothing of that sort with that much connectedness. I have gone on vacation where it is off the grid
phil spade
@Phil · 2:38
Xiaomi, I have about half of what you have. So you have me beat there. And you know, I was thinking just today there are some devices that I wish were actually smart that were hooked up, like the furnace AC unit to tell me when the filter needs replacing. That's something I always forget. And then when I actually do remember to pull it out, it's just absolutely filthy. And I just wonder what I've been breathing for the last
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 3:30
I also feel freaked out sometimes about how this hyper connected lifestyle, like you said, is influencing my brain in ways that I can't even fully comprehend, and the evolution of us as a species. Being part of that freaks me out a lot. But I also think is really cool at the same time
Howie Rubin
@Howie · 0:29
I grew up in the Dark Ages. I traveled the world without a cell phone. I communicated with people, sold goods and services using a telex machine, and then a Fax machine. I long for the old days when people actually talk to each other. And perhaps it's one of the real reasons that I love what you guys are doing with swell
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:56
And it would kind of simulate that we are kind of home. We are living downstairs in the evening having dinner or something and then slowly and then it moved to the bedrooms. And then late at night those lights would go off. So all these are really cool benefits that we wouldn't have had without IoT. Another neat thing that I've done is our bathrooms
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:57
So you could actually have that be a trigger to actually start making coffee. So again, what I'm kind of proposing is like trying to formalize basic scalable plug and play platform for IoT where you'll have sensors, actuators and actually services running in the cloud or wherever that actually hook them up and do smart things if done right. We can scale up so you can just keep going on in this coffee scenario, right?
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:54
And we can correlate it to the number of years of user to a long term use of devices, then maybe we can probably understand that better, but in the grand scale of things, if you're worried about us polluting our brains not in a literal form but in an abstract form of like with too many signals and too much of information, I do not think that is necessarily a bad thing. The more the information, the better we understand and we can make better decisions