The beautiful consequences of Amazon’s Echo.
It’s all about the medium. Michael Porter (Porter’s five forces) describes – in his write-up on “How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition” – the 3 major revolutions of information technology: First came the “…automated individual activities in the value chain, from order processing and bill paying to computer-aided design and manufacturing resource planning.” Around the 1960s and 70s Next, in the 1990’s came the internet, creating unparalleled information flow and infinite pathways of communication? The third… Enter the Internet of Things (What is the Internet of Things), aka the concept in which devices are always on, and...
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