Summary
The Internet of Things and Covenience
( Mas Aji Pamungkas/1534010042 )
1. Introduction
In this paper we highlight a number of vital issues that tend to be ignored in the dominant technological discussions related to the vision of Internet of Things (IoT). Although “convenience” as a concept is not excessively highlighted in texts on the IoT, it holds a paradigmatic status. There is an implicit idea that our things can be made to serve us much better. Dohr et al. (2010, p. 804) argue that the IoT is a development of the previous notions of ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing and ambient intelligence. Here, there is a vital development as the earlier familiar “dimensions of the common internet – from anytime, anyplace connectivity for anyone – are supplemented by the dimension anything.”