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5 ways ‘things’ will change the Internet and your life in 2017

GUEST: In the next year, the Internet will connect to about 1.5 billion new “things,” and by 2020, over 20 billion devices will be online. In theory, every one of them will be able to connect to every other.
The Internet was not created to handle this population explosion of data-generating devices. The Internet will be threatened by its own growth, and we will see cyber-attacks extend to more and more of these things.
So is the Internet headed for collapse? No, but it will change. H
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