Dietrich

“The Internet of Things makes no attempt to redress, or even address, the many real problems that the internet brought to the world. On the contrary, it’s an international effort to bring everything that wasn’t internet within the purview of the techno-elite that currently dominates the internet.”
― 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

“The Internet of Things has a slight utopian tinge, but mostly it has a certain melancholy, even grim air. It’s not some psychedelic exploration of the cyberspace of the digital. It’s material labour, it’s hardware, it’s a hard slog.”
― Bruce Sterling, The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things

“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