Talk based on William H. Dutton (2014), ‘Putting things to work: social and policy: challenges for the Internet of things’, Info, VOL. 16 NO. 3, pp. 1-21. [http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17108501&show=abstract]
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Putting Things to Work: Social and Policy Challenges for the Internet of Things
1. Putting Things to Work:
Social and Policy Challenges for the Internet of Things
Bill Dutton
Balliol College &
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
Presentation for the Internet of Things Meetup, Culham Science
Centre, Culham, Abingdon, UK, 9 July 2014.
2. Talk drawing from:
• William H. Dutton (2014), ‘Putting things to work: social
and policy: challenges for the Internet of things’, Info, VOL.
16 NO. 3, pp. 1-21.
[http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1
7108501&show=abstract]
• Dutton, B., with Capra, L., Ciaraldi, M., Evans, D.F., Furness,
A., Graham, I., Jirotka, M., Kupai, A., Maguire, M.,
Matthews, N., Mowbray, M., Payne, M., Prendiville, A.,
Steinmueller, E. and Tyrrell, R. (2013), A Roadmap for
Internet of Things: Social Sciences, TSB Special Interest
Group on the Internet of Things, Technology Strategy
Board, London.
3. Applications: Electronic Chameleon
Monitoring and Managing Energy Use
Remote Monitoring, for diabetes, asthma, …
Environmental Monitoring
Health Monitoring
Tracking
Logistics Management
Manufacturing
Quantitative Self: Running, Jogging, Personal Data
Location, Travel Directions
4. Key Social, Legal, Ethical Issues
• New way of doing things
• Unintended, unanticipated outcomes
Social-Organizational
Innovation
• Active Badge System
• Remote Health and Medical Monitoring and other big data usesPrivacy
• Controller of the machine?
• Ownership of a medical image?
• Ownership of social media posts?
Ownership
• More highly coupled systems
• Scalable to larger and more distributed networksLarge Scale Failures
• Empower individuals: monitor energy use?
• Centralize control: remotely shut off appliances?
Control: Locus of
Choice
• Ubiquitous?
• Empowering the more well-to-do individuals, and nations?Inequality