Samuel Greengard

If novelist and futurist Jules Verne were writing non-fiction about future, each of his books could be abridged to mere two pages. The author of "The Internet of Things" produces a small book. Do read this enthusiastic paean to the brave new world awaiting us, where all devices are interconnected, you including. Do it especially if you're an optimist since Greengard's future is mostly spotless and benign: man and robot wed to each other with Wi-Fi waves are walking towards horizon. A whiff of concern upwells in a passage implying that machines and gadgets will take over, thus leaving us with excess of...hmm..people material, only to be blown away by a conveniently starting another upbeat paragraph.

Unbelievably enough the author finishes with a sentence guarding against unsubstantiated elation, invoking only time's ability to prove if the wired world would be better indeed. Yet after all those pages it looks like Surgeon General's fine print on a cigarette pack.
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