name: inverse class: center, middle, inverse layout: true .header[.floatleft[.teal[Christopher Biggs] — Everyday IoT].floatright[.teal[@unixbigot] .logo[@accelerando_au]]] .footer[.floatleft[.hashtag[iotbne] Sept 2018]] --- name: callout class: center, middle, italic, bulletul layout: true .header[.floatleft[.teal[Christopher Biggs] — Everyday IoT].floatright[.teal[@unixbigot] .logo[@accelerando_au]]] .footer[.floatleft[.hashtag[iotbne] Sept 2018]] --- layout: true template: callout .header[.floatleft[.teal[Christopher Biggs] — Everyday IoT].floatright[.teal[@unixbigot] .logo[@accelerando_au]]] .footer[.floatleft[.hashtag[iotbne] Sept 2018]] --- class: center, middle template: inverse # The Internet of Everyday Things ## .green[IoT and the future of domesticity] .bottom.right[ Christopher Biggs, .logo[Accelerando Consulting] <br>@unixbigot .logo[@accelerando_au] ] ??? Hi everyone. I'm Christopher Biggs. I've been involved with electronic gadgets since I was a teenager, and throughout 20 years as a software engineer, architect and manager. In my day job, I founded a consultancy which helps businesses use technology to reduce stress. This is what what I strongly believe, that technology facilitates the gradual process of freeing humanity from drudgery and fear. I started Accelerando because I wanted to contribute to a future that I can be excited to live in. --- layout: true template: callout .crumb[ # Welcome # Past? ] --- class: center, middle template: inverse # A century of change? ??? --- .fig100[ ] --- .fig100[ ] --- .fig100[ ] --- .fig100[ ] --- layout: true template: callout .crumb[ # Welcome # Past? # Present? ] --- class: center, middle template: inverse # There's An* App For That .footnote[100 apps] --- # “Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet.” ##– Bran Ferren (via Douglas Adams) ??? I love this quote from Artist and Technologist Bran Ferren, who was making the point that when things just work, we stop calling them technology. Nobody calls chairs technology, despite the amount of engineering sophistication that goes into them, becuase they almost never go rogue for no visible reason. Rather unlike the Internet Of Things. --- .fig40l[ ] .fig40r[ ] --- # "A house is a machine to live in" ## - Le Courbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) **1923** ??? We are just a handful of years short of the centenary of the publication of Modern Architecture pioneer Le Corbusier's maxim , yet our architecture remains stubbornly steam powered. --- .fig30l[ ] ??? Thirty years after its publication, Donald Norman's seminal book "The Design of Everyday Things", which examined how the tiny usability touches in everyday items matter so much, remains relevant and important. In fact, Don just this year wrote that the technology industry badly needs to re-focus on the true meaning of Human Centered Design, observing that despite his decades of advocacy, the same kinds of design flaws continually recur. --- .fig30l[ ] .fig30r[ ] --- .fig30r[ ] --- .fig30r[ ] --- .fig50l[ ] --- .fig50l[ ] .fig50r[ ] --- .fig50l[ ] --- .fig50l[ ] .fig50r[ ] --- .fig40l[ ] --- .fig40l[ ] .fig40r[ ] --- layout: true template: callout .crumb[ # Welcome # Past # Present # Future ] --- .fig50[ ] .spacedown[ # The Future] --- # But *which* Future? A, or B? .fig50l[ ]] .fig50r[ ] ??? I think a lot about what kind of future I want to live in. On the left we have Star Trek, which says that in the future whenever we want to do anything we have to poke at a screen or command a disembodied computer "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot." In the Star Trek future, the computer becomes an unavoidable presence in our lives. Everything we do is mediated through it. On the right we have a still from the 1984 production of Frank Herbert's Dune, directed by David Lynch. A problematic book, and widely regarded as a terrible movie, neverthless it is spectacularly beautiful film to look at. You can turn the sound down if you like. --- # My Three Laws of IoT * **First Law:** Devices must cooperate for the benefit of humans * **Second Law:** Devices must communicate, and obey instructions * **Third Law:** Devices must be as simple and reliable as possible ??? So I give you my three laws of IoT * Devices must cooperate for the benefit of humans * Devices must communicate, and obey instructions * Devices must be as simple and reliable as possible If you squint a bit they look like Asimov's laws. That's not really profound, it's just a bit of fun. --- # My Three* Laws of IoT * **Zeroth Law:** Devices must be beautiful (or invisible). * **First Law:** Devices must cooperate for the benefit of humans * **Second Law:** Devices must communicate, and obey instructions * **Third Law:** Devices must be as simple and reliable as possible .footnote[-ish] ??? But Asimov got to retcon in a Zeroth law, so I can too. Devices must be beautiful, or invisible. If we invite computers into our living rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms they can't look like truck parts. --- .fig40r[ ] --- .fig40r[ ] .spacedown[ ## "Wrong! Wrong! Absolutely brimming over with Wrongability" ### - Arnold J Rimmer (BSc SSc), 2 Million Years in the future ] --- .fig40l[ ] --- .fig50l[ ] --- .fig50l[ ] .fig60r[ ] --- .fig75[ ] --- # Imagine a less awful security system * Disarm from your phone while still outside -- * Messages you a picture when intrusion is detected -- * Starts recording in High Def from thirty seconds ago -- * Forgot to arm? It's the future, you have an iPhone. --- .fig30[  ] # Future* home .footnote[now, if you want it] * Oven has remote timer, camera, temperature alert -- * All your appliances message you (or announce via house audio) when done -- * Your washing line warns you when it rains -- * Did I remember to shut the front door? -- *   (nevermind, because your house locks up if nobody's home) --- # Future* office .footnote[also now] * Elevator plans the fastest route to desired floors * Reception-bot welcomes you and pages the person that you're here to see * Meeting rooms know when they're next booked * Climate control that actually works * Deliveries announced --- .fig30[  ] # Recap .nolm[ * A House is a Machine to Live In. * Imagine Technology that's easy to use, not just easy to build * There is more to design than just blue LEDs * "The Future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet"* ] .footnote[ Wm. Gibson, probably] --- # Resources, Questions ## Related talks - [http://christopher.biggs.id.au/#talks](http://christopher.biggs.id.au/#talks) ## Me - Christopher Biggs - Twitter: .blue[@accelerando_au] - Email: .blue[christopher@biggs.id.au] - Slides, and getting my advice: http://christopher.biggs.id.au/ - Accelerando Consulting - IoT, DevOps, Big Data - https://accelerando.com.au/