Cyberbullying and Garrulous Tech

The arrival of social media transformed good old data warehousing into Big Data. The arrival of the Internet of Things will, in the absence of marketing treatment, generate what could be called Very Big Data.

What will be the bandwidth implications of all your home devices chatting to each other and sharing environmental and usage data with their associated service providers?

And what will be the implications on the associated service agreements if you turn off some of the appliances in order to enable your streamed consumption of media content to flow smoothly?

And as these appliances build up a picture of your usage habits will service providers, in the interests of remaining relevant, prompt the toaster to steadily pressurise you into action (cajoling, then whinging followed by toast-related threats)?

Coming soon – the Internet of attention seeking things?