I am fairly certain that nearly everyone knows the story about the six blind men coming upon an elephant. Depending on each man’s vantage point, the elephant was a rope, a wall, a pillar, a fan, the branch of a tree, or a solid pipe. Eventually, they learned to cooperate and combine their impressions to finally “see” the elephant as a whole.
In my latest article for No Jitter, I used a recent contest at Arrow Systems Integration to explore the many faces and impressions of IoT (Internet of Things).
Tao, Zen, and Tomorrow 