Marshall Kirkpatrick Video- We'll share our everyday lives through connected devices

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Marshall Kirkpatrick, the lead writer at ReadWriteWeb, predicts that everyday devices like our refrigerator will play as important a role in our future interactions as social media does today, and the measurement of casual activities will be shared among our contacts and followers on the Web.

Transcript: I believe that connected devices publishing data about our everyday activities in what used to be called the offline world is going to open up a new platform for communication, storytelling and rational, just social change. The instrumentation of a wide variety of previously disconnected devices, be it our home utility grid, our refrigerator, our sporting goods equipment, etc.; all of those devices will be publishing data to the Web that people will create new applications and services with that find patterns and tell stories based on the measurement of our casual, everyday activities. And I think that will become just as important an online activity as social networking or self-publishing has. I think that we will be tracking for ourselves and sharing with our friends benchmarks and personal records, and personal progress, in everything from personal growth to home efficiency to health efforts and I think that will make a lot of things that used to be private, public collaborative activities that we'll all share and grow in together.

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