The Internet Will be a Network of Things, Not computers.

互联网将是网络的世界，而不仅仅是计算机。

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The IoT is a term developed to describe a wireless network of "things" containing embedded technology that communicate without human interaction.

物联网这个术语描述的是“事物”之间的无线网络，这些事物都采用嵌入式技术，无需人为介入就可彼此通讯。

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The Internet is now an interconnected, global network of things: computers, devices, sensors, applications, etc.

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Today, Google offers a Person Finder service, but it shows just how far we are from a completely connected network of machines and things.

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"Privacy and identity management become a lot more important, " he says, noting that a recent security alliance between IBM and Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) takes things even further, so that the network itself can manage identities of things like cars or washing machines that are increasingly wired in.

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