The writer William Gibson said that thefutureisalreadyhere, but not very evenly distributed, and the Internet of Things is a classic example of an unevenly silted future.
The science fiction future, as imagined by children growing up between the 1950s and 1980s isalreadyhere: we have the flat panel televisions mounted on the wall like canvases, we have the Dick Tracy personal communication devices (and we've managed to cram jukeboxes inside them -- we call them iPhones) but we're missing something.