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Anonymous at Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:50:52 UTC No. 16137084
Scientifically speaking why don't we have an internet of all things already? Like sensors and camaras on every tree, bird's nest, spider web, all over the ocean's floor and in every cave. Like experiments with millions of flowers and bees and batches of micro-organisms each one growing in slightly different circumstances. Like fully automated and autonomous factories running these experiments for multiple lifetimes.
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:28:23 UTC No. 16137379
>>16137084
Extracting desired state information from sensors, especially heterogenous sensors on potentially different data streams, is incredibly difficult in most cases.
Even if we loaded things with these wireless sensors to the gills, you need to figure out what to do with all of that data and how to turn it into useful information for decision/control.
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:48:46 UTC No. 16137416
>>16137379
So can't we, say for example, determine what the optimal water content of a tree is, and then pay a contractor to react to a signal every time the water content of a tree is too low and in that way optimize management of greenery in a specific area? Silly example from a cost-effectiveness viewpoint but you get the idea.
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:56:57 UTC No. 16137431
>>16137416
We can, but as you say, it's extremely silly from a cost-effectiveness viewpoint, and even more basically this whole concept of an endless stream of all possible data coming from everyone and everything possible ignores how much of that data (nearly all of it) would be completely and utterly fucking useless.