The utopia future of the Internet of Things

Is this the future of the Internet of Things?

"Ambient intelligence," like ambient lighting, will simply be everywhere around us.

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It will be a fundamental paradigm shift in the way we think of “computing,” and possibly whether we think about computing at all.

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For that matter, why carry a phone when ambient connectivity will let us simply speak to each other across a distance without devices?

Reference: Is this the future of the Internet of Things?