The Future of IoT

  Introduction Transportation may be one of the most important innovations in our lives. Being able to go from one place to the other, whether within city limits or across the earth, has enabled an aspect of lifestyle that was absent in the early ages. The aspect of long-distance transportation was enabled through sea-based methods, such as boats, for the main purpose of trade and commerce. But even before that, animals like horses and donkeys were the sole mean of short-distance (relatively) transportation. It wasn’t until hundreds of years later that buses and trains were invented, followed by airplanes and Ford’s first cars in the early 1900s. Around 40-80 years later, rockets and space shuttles were developed and launched. If we were to look at the timeline of these innovations, it is inevitable that the rate of innovation has dramatically increased over the centuries. This is due to bandwidth increase, more manpower, and even more education across countries.   Scope ...

When it comes to organization planning and innovation, there are more aspects than technical planning that must be taken into consideration. Social structures, roles, rights, cognitive systems, and systems theory are all parts of innovative design. This is exactly what sociotechnical planning is. A socio-technical system applies a combination of perspectives to “inform the design of systems that involve communities of people and technology” (Interaction Design, 2021).  One organization that has proven to be impacted by the changes in sociotechnical plan is Blockbusters. The video-rental company was one of the most famous chains in the United States. The company had undergone multiple transitions, like that of VHS to DVD. However, as new technologies were rapidly introduced, such as online video-streaming websites, Blockbuster was no longer able to remain on the top of the entertainment chain. Websites like Netflix and Hulu quickly dominated this industry by offering more convenient...