50 Billion Internet Devices by 2020

The World Wide Web has transformed our lives in amazing ways. For consumers, however, most of that impact involves accessing and delivering content. We use a wide range of devices to do this, ranging from smart phones and tablet computers to cloud-based server farms. It includes content as varied as credit card payments and video downloads. However, this is only the beginning. By 2020, it's likely that the Internet will include more than 50 billion devices; that's seven devices for every human being on the planet. What will these devices be doing? What are the implicat.....