If you look to the early days of stolen vehicle management, via LoJack and others, or homing devices such as what we saw in No Country for Old Men when Anton found his money, you know everything you need to know when it comes to the Internet of Things.

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We need to know how to harness the power of the Internet and these new technologies for creating and sharing knowledge that will prepare students with the skills to compete in the 21st century.

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There is, perhaps, no need to explain what happened next: Until the advent of the Internet, no journalist needed to know how a high-speed printing press worked because its functions and capacities were known and fixed.

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On the other hand, if a franchisee insists he has to go above and beyond a brand standard to compete--say, by offering free broadband Internet service or extra pillows--Ledsinger has to know when to say okay. (Chains need to police the impulses to go up market, too, lest their other units suffer by comparison.) The warmth and fuzziness, he hopes, will trickle down.

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