More Web-Enabled Objects Than Humans Came Online Last Quarter

According to a new data released by wireless analyst Chetan Sharma, more web enabled devices than humans subscribers were connected to the internet in the last quarter in US by AT&T and Verizon.  While growth in human subscription sales is slowing down, it is devices such as digital picture frames, GPS systems and broadband TVs where the actual potential growth is.

Read Write Web used this data to argue that these connected devices will lead to improvements and innovations in other spheres:

Hopefully, the sophistication of connected devices and the data they publish to the internet will continue to grow. Where there are large sets of data, especially data connected to our real-world lives, there is a rich opportunity for data analysis. That analysis can lead to improved personal recommendations, detection of opportunities for innovation, pattern recognition and problem pre-emption, or illumination of inefficient or inequitable allocations of resources that ought to be resolved. This is data as a whole new platform, a greenfield for as yet unforeseeable innovations.

Those machines could become co-participants in our social networks as their data comes online and is made available to programmers. Imagine your Facebook news feed: “Your sister Jenny changed her relationship status to ‘in a relationship’ and your toaster is using more electricity than it should be.”

Read Write Web: “Objects Outpace New Human Subscribers to AT&T, Verizon”