[JacksonGariety]

> I expect that to be true of the emerging IoT technology as well (more useful things than bad things)

It's very hard to tell wether something does "more good than bad."

But we can look at the history of technology and predict which areas of research tend to create the most elegant results. Medical technology is a great example. Alleviation of useless suffering.

It can be made good because it is, at its heart, science. Internet of Things is not so. The products IoT creates will be by companies trying to extract capital from customers.

There's no science to IoT, there's no elegant beauty, and there's a tremendous risk of extending the NSA's vision even deeper into our lives.

[ChuckMcM]

At the risk of derailing this further, I disagree with this:

"It's very hard to tell wether something does 'more good than bad.'"

If you ask the population using the technology in question if its more good than bad they will answer "yes" or "no". If 51% of them think it is more good than bad, then by definition it is more good than bad.