The Internet of Things Won't Be Big It'll Be Huge

No other engineered system in the history of humanity has seen such astronomical progress in energy efficiency. It takes over 10 billion times less energy today to execute a single logic operation, and to wirelessly transport one byte, compared to what was required at the dawn of the computing and communications revolutions respectively. For perspective, if you could do that in physical systems it would mean that a loaded Boeing 777 could fly to Asia by burning just 10 milligrams of aviation fuel. (A housefly weighs about 10 milligrams.) In our universe, the physics of objects and atoms doesn’t permit billion-fold gains in efficiencies. Only in the physics of information is that possible, and that’s what has generated the commensurate revolutions.