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by tbirrell 3476 days ago
I think M2M is great and all, but the thing is, the machines are doing something for the humans. We can tell a machine to go talk to another machine but neither machine will know WHAT they are supposed to do unless we tell them. The HOW is certainly something that can be solved with time and uniformity, but the WHAT is always something that will require a human presence. And ultimately, with all the humans in the world needing different WHATs, I don't see the required uniformity ever coming to be on any scale larger than the local central authority.
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The WHAT is provided by the users when they interact with some machine.