Kevin Ashton is the man who coined the phrase “the Internet of Things,” and he was one of THE driving forces behind the RFID tagging wave, which tags everything from pets to trash cans to airplane parts to pill bottles to employee uniforms to smart appliances. Each RFID tag has a unique identifier, so you don’t know just WHAT the tag is on, you know exactly WHICH pill bottle/dishwasher/oxygen tank your information applies to.

I start writing about the IOT, and open up a magazine to find an entire column about Ashton and his drive to create network standards for using the data.

The universe is weird and wonderful.