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From: Paul H. Christiansen10/6/2016 12:34:16 PM
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The Internet Of Things Won't Be Big It'll Be Huge



It’s time for a break from the sturm und drang of the political season. Herein an exploration of a macro trend that bodes well for America – and for investors. Of course governments are capable of either facilitating or stifling tech revolutions. But progress is (nearly) inevitable when tech cycles are foundational.

And as a bellwether of the next Big Thing consider the ‘overnight’ success of tiny tech company Impinj [NASDAQ:PI]: it ‘leapt’ from its founding 15 years ago to successful IPO last month. It is a company that epitomizes the class of technologies making possible the Internet of Things (IoT), a transformation about which there is already much hyperbole. But this time the hyperbole actually understates the prospects. The misnamed IoT is in fact the next wave in communication revolutions. To understand why and to go beyond superficial hype—common and excusable in the popular press—we need to explore some of the underlying concepts (which I’m previewing here from my next book).

Impinj wasn’t co-founded by a hoody-wearing Millennial college dropout but by Carver Mead, a retired CalTech prof who is one of the great living physicists from the 20th century’s unique confluence of many luminaries who have since passed on, not the least of which was Richard Feynman, a Mead colleague.

forbes.com

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