It’s estimated every year sees 2.5 billion new things connected to the Internet through sensors.  It could be by 2023 these will reach the trillions.

This information is the first part of a brave new world.  Automation is the second – when something is activated as a result of the  information: your fridge is down to the last 200ml of milk – this information activates an order for more milk..

The cost of this technology is nosediving, meaning we’re looking at what Autodesk’s Karl Bass is calling “infinite computing” – computing as abundant and cheap rather than scarce and expensive.*

Imagine 2023, when these trillions of sensors are not only found in the world around but also beginning to be found in our bodies, monitoring, and triggering, the production of chemicals,maintaining optimum body efficiency.

The question is, will our understanding and utilising of the sensors we already have continue to lag behind – not only for our feelings and energies (body, mind, heart, and spirit), but also those we’ve “implanted” – skills and talents and strengths, as well as passions and values.

The technology is constant allowing us to look at the smaller things of our lives is constantly emerging.  It would be the greatest of Human tragedies, though, if we neglected the kind of developments which lead to effectiveness within a bigger story and a better world.

It could well be the two go hand in hand; in fact, I strongly suspect they do.

(*From Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler’s Bold.)