A panel discussion at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2015, moderated by Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy. Panelists: Marc Goodman, Author, Future Crimes; Chair for Policy, Law and Ethics, Singularity University; Alex Hawkinson, Founder and CEO, SmartThings; Bridget Karlin, Managing Director, IoT Strategy and Technology Office, Internet of Things Group, Intel Corp.; Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association.
Schrage: “The glib way of thinking about the Internet of Things is social media for machines.”
Marc Goodman: “The concept of my refrigerator tweeting, snapchatting, or sexting is kind of disturbing.”
Shapiro: “The Internet spreads information; the Internet of Things is actually actionable information.”
What's The Big Data? 
It would be interesting to know if human developers will be able to produce and maintain the software for the IoT. We might find out that the IoT things produced robotic-ally would need automatic software development, deployment, maintenance…
What’s the forecast of average Lines of Code required to operate/monetize a thing? Are there enough developers to produce those LoCs? This might become the next boring job…
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