Video: Smart People, Dumb Objects, Networked Environments
The world, we are told, will become a vast 'eco-system' of conversant devices, buildings and virtual environments. But somewhere behind all these 'machines' are people, and it's the people that, ultimately, make interactions 'smart'.
At ProductTank April, Usman Haque, founding partner of Umbrellium, founder of Haque Design + Research and founder of Pachube, a real-time data infrastructure and community for the Internet of Things, talked about how, in an age of extreme connectivity, what becomes important is what we are connected to.
With real world examples drawing from angles including measuring the quality of air you breath in your city, radiation levels following the disaster at Fukushima, to connecting your houseplants to your electricity usage, Usman shows us what happens when you put people back in the centre of the data and the decision-making.
About the author
Janna Bastow
Janna Bastow is one of the co-founders of Mind the Product, and kicked off her first event for product people with ProductCamp London in 2010, in an effort to meet and learn from other product managers. As a product manager always looking for better tools, Janna also co-founded ProdPad, product management and roadmapping software for product people. She often starts and stops conversations with the question: “What problem are you trying to solve?”
