The Connected Everything Era: How IoT, Smart Sensors & AI Are Transforming Everyday Life | Tech 101

Connected everything era life in a sensor-filled with world.

Look around you, people.

Your smartphone knows the location.

Your smartwatch can measure movement and the heart rate.

Modern cars contains cameras, radar, microphones, and other sensors.

Smart homes can detect motion, temperature, light, and even whether outdoor has been open.

Factories, farms, hospitals, cities, and transportations, networks are increasingly filled with connected devices collecting information in real time.

So we are entering a new era where technology does not simply wait for us to give its instruction.

It can increasingly sense what is happening around us and respond.

That's a big question, and who owns all this data, Miss Jackie? How much should we, our devices know about us?

That's a good question.

I think, uh, what we should do is get to know these devices and what kind of data it's collecting and, and also if you feel like it's, you don't want certain data to be collected or used, I would say, um, look at those settings and opt out of them if, if you don't want to do that.

So, because I think oftentimes these types of tools or devices will have certain features or options already automatically turned on, right? So-

Mm-hmm

... um, so I think it's important to go in there and make sure that You're informed about what's being collected and how it's being collected, right? So not just the what, the how, and the why, right, as well.

Right.

So I, I think that's important.

And to, yeah, and I hope that, you know, these companies are transparent about that.

You know, like for example, Apple has all these different tools like we're talking about, Android, all the major, you know, companies, right, uh, that have, have that.

But also if you have a, a, a provider, a cell provider or you have, you know, a, a, uh, a company that provides your internet, who knows? They may be doing that as well.

So it's important to-

Mm-hmm

... be an informed consumer, right?

Yes, uh, definitely, uh, transparency indeed.

As inter- as in artificial intelligence becomes connected to these enormous stream of real world information, could our physical environment itself become intelligent? I think so.