Should I follow my fridge on Twitter?

Once you read it you'll have this expression. Or think I'm talking bollocks, one or the other.

• “Ed just made toast” @Ed_toaster_314

The internet of things, a term long bandied around in technical circles is rapidly becoming a mainstream concept. This isn’t a new trend, connecting devices and sensors together with human beings is a basic goal of the internet, but the omnipresence of wi-fi and mobile phone bandwidth as well as the rapid strides in low power processor and better battery development has changed the game. According to an Intel survey the number of internet connected devices will increase from around seven billion now to over two hundred billion by 2020. There will be over twenty connected devices for every human being on earth and all of them will be sharing data about their environments, their activities and you, their so called owners. By 2030 some projections indicate there will be over fifty trillion connected devices, in effect; every device/artefact/thingy/widget on earth, from your car and your sunglasses to your front door and your shirt buttons will have the ability to sense their environment, talk with each other and you.

The Cheshire Cat State

Yup, I've been thinking again....

It's been thirty five years since Michael Aldrich demonstrated the first online shopping experience and gave birth to eCommerce and channel shift in one fell swoop. Since then the shift to digital channels, first for B2B ordering, then B2C shopping and finally to G2C services has gathered pace. This shift is one of the largest areas of discretionary spend for global public sector clients. It is of interest to citizens, governments and IT providers because it’s pretty obvious that this move to a digital default model for the delivery of public services to citizens will deliver vast benefits to both providers and consumers of those services. From more efficient processing to quicker delivery times, the channel shift to digital will transform the way citizens and public service bodies interact and free up resources to deal with new priorities but that shift doesn’t come without risk.