Dietrich

“That doesn’t mean that the Internet of Things will triumph, because, in some ways, it can’t win. It’s too broad and vague to win; it’s a huge, looming infrastructural phenomenon, much like “electrification” or “automation” once were. People never voted to become electrical or automated.”
― Bruce Sterling, The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things

“The Internet of Things is not a capitalist marketplace. It’s a new platform for radically broadening digital activity.”
― Bruce Sterling, The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things

“If the content is sufficiently engrossing, however, you don’t need wraparound deep-immersion goggles to shut out the world. You grow your own. You are there. Watching the content you most want to see, you see nothing else.”
― William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

“There is no power-group of consequence in the world today that successfully renounces smartphones. No one who matters refuses what they offer.”
― Bruce Sterling, The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things