Foreword
Greetings from the past. I am writing this foreword in what is for you the bygone technological era of February 2017. Back then (or now, to me), most cars still had human drivers. We still needed traffic lights, and most of those lights ran on timers, completely blind to the traffic on the streets. As I write this, most residential utility meters are mechanical, and utility workers have to walk from house to house to get readings. The vast majority of toasters can’t tweet.
I joined Cisco in 2013 and became the company’s Internet of Things leader in 2015. The scope and velocity of the technological change my team sees is immense—so much so that book forewords can have a short shelf life.
But we can prepare for the changes and opportunities ...
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