{"id":43651,"date":"2018-06-05T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43651"},"modified":"2018-06-04T13:32:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T17:32:35","slug":"the-internet-of-things-as-moores-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/06\/05\/the-internet-of-things-as-moores-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet-of-Things as “Moore’s Revenge”"},"content":{"rendered":"

El Reg<\/em>‘s Mark Pesce<\/a> on the end of Moore’s Law and the start of Moore’s Revenge:<\/p>\n

… the cost of making a device “smart” – whether that means, aware, intelligent, connected, or something else altogether \u2013 is now trivial. We’re therefore quickly transitioning from the Death of Moore’s Law into the era of Moore’s Revenge – where pretty much every manufactured object has a chip in it.<\/p>\n

This is going to change the whole world, and it’s going to begin with a fundamental reorientation of IT, away from the “pinnacle” desktops and servers, toward the “smart dust” everywhere in the world: collecting data, providing services – and offering up a near infinity of attack surfaces. Dumb is often harder to hack than smart, but – as we saw last month in the Z-Wave attack that impacted hundreds of millions of devices<\/a> – once you’ve got a way in, enormous damage can result.<\/p>\n

The focus on security will produce new costs for businesses – and it will be on IT to ensure those costs don’t exceed the benefits of this massively chipped-and-connected world. It’ll be a close-run thing.<\/p>\n

It’s also likely to be a world where nothing works precisely as planned. With so much autonomy embedded in our environment, the likelihood of unintended consequences amplifying into something unexpected becomes nearly guaranteed.<\/p>\n

We may think the world is weird today, but once hundreds of billions of marginally intelligent and minimally autonomous systems start to have a go, that weirdness will begin to arc upwards exponentially.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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