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Digital Future: The Internet of Things

Alex, David Levinson, Bridget, Kathleen Murphy, Mark, Gary, Michael, Shirley Moody, Dan Galpin, Margaret Burns, John McCutchan

The event analyzes the Internet of Things as a rapidly expanding "physical graph" driven by industrial applications and projected to host 50 billion devices, fundamentally shifting market models from hardware sales to recurring data services. Industry leaders emphasize that robust security must be embedded at the silicon level and advocated for open platforms to mitigate risks inherent in interdependent legacy systems. Furthermore, the discussion addresses the economic viability of IoT through predictive maintenance, the convergence of connectivity standards, and the ethical challenges surrounding privacy, algorithmic bias, and public safety governance.