2013-12-19T19:07:33+00:00December 19th, 2013|Tags: , |

In 1984, there were 1000 connected devices. That number rose up to reach a million devices in 1992, and reached a billion devices in 2008. Our estimates say…that we will have roughly 50 billion connected devices by the year 2020. That number is going to really accelerate over the next several years. Despite the fact, we estimate that only one percent of things that could have an IP address do have an IP address today, so we like to say that 99 percent of the world is still asleep. It’s up to our imaginations to figure out what will happen when the 99 percent wakes up.

Padmasree Warrior, Cisco’s Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, on The Internet of Things in 2014 (via wearebunker)

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