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Enthusiasm about the prospective benefits of a more technology-driven future is a long-running theme that dates to the Industrial Revolution. Emblematic are the results of a March 2014 survey by Pew Research Center’s Internet Project in conjunction with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. Some 1,606 technology experts and highly engaged US internet users were polled about whether they thought the IoT would have “widespread and beneficial effects on the everyday lives of the public by 2025.” A significant majority—83%—said yes.
But the road to that technology-centered future will be long. Thinking of just one small niche within the broader IoT landscape—the smart home—most US internet users (85.0%) did not own a single smart home device, according to a May 2014 AYTM Market Research survey. And of that group, over half expressed little interest in owning one.
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