A Person Is A Thing In The Internet Of Things

I googled the title of this blog in quotes and there was no match return hit from google on the prior use of the phrase in quotes.

Score another one for me.  The first to make an entry into the great google index of a unique word phrase that also has the bewildering status of nobody ever having stated it before.  Bewildering because it is such an obvious fundamental truth that has a great magnitude of importance in the conceptual structure of things in the Information age.

I can find hits that say people are a thing like any other thing object that can be a thing in the internet of things.  Therefore I can't claim the statement as a revelation of truth.  I can only claim saying the bald truth of the matter in the most flat out simple way possible.  That is something important because a person is a Big Thing among all other things in the Internet of Things Scheme of Things.

To say the last thing I said in the prior paragraph:  A Person is a Proper Noun in the Internet of Things where all Things are now Proper Nouns because to enter the Internet of Things each thing must be uniquely identified as an instance of a class with a unique identifier.  Conversely, a person is not a proper noun as a non unique entity external to the Internet of things is a common noun unless somehow uniquely identified by name.

All Things in the Internet of Things are by definition Proper Nouns.

Natural Language is so simple and fun to play with.

Someday, and the day is coming, a person will be a nobody if they are not in the Internet of Things.  When that day comes they will be officially designated as known to exist as a common noun unidentified instance of the class people and will be hunted down and made a Proper Noun in the Internet of Things because common nouns relating to important things in the system cannot be allowed to exist outside of unique identification of "Proper Noun" status in the Internet of Things.

The hunting of renegades evading Proper Noun status will be a conceptual thing.  Tracking clues to their existence will expose them.  People who have principle unique identifiers on record but no relationship to their Internet of Things identifier.  They will be in the New Limbo of persons without a country.  Unacceptable.  People that do not have an Internet of Things Identifier but have any one or many of these identifiers:  Social Security number, bank account number, drivers license number, cell phone number, Face Book page, etc.  Easy to find especially if they must by law have an crucial Internet of Things unique ID in order to receive or spend money or access the World Wide Web with biometric ID to watch Netflix.

A Person just gots ta have an Internet of Things number.  That is a future thing of Science Fiction.

What is the number?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is described here.  All things are identified by an Internet of Things Internet Protocol Adress (IP Address).  They are assigned to physical devices connected to the internet.  Another description of the IoT is here.

It describes a person with a heart implant device with an IP address (probably a static one!) that communicates with the internet as a thing (the person them self) as a thing on the the IoT.  A person as a thing on the IoT by virtue of their inseparable association with a physical thing that is connected to the IoT.  That person therefore becomes the owner of and directly identified by the IP address of their heart implant device.  That is a more persistent and lasting identification of their Face Book page identified by an HTTP address.

IP is an internet address.  Assigned to physical devices on a network.

HTTP is a World Wide Web address identification number scheme assigned to structure the conceptual information system that exists  on the physically connected internet.  Web Pages.
It can be expressed in plain language that translates to a number for system structure.

IPv6 is the new IP numbering system.  It provides enough numbers to uniquely identify every single atom on the surface of the earth 100 times over.  Maybe, maybe not.  That claim is made and discussed here.  In any event it is a lot of numbers and that is probably an understatement.

It seems that there may be a good probability to me that there will be a convergence of IP/HTTP in the future.  Maybe not a convergence but a direct translation from the conceptual structure of the world wide web to the physical structure of the internet device network.

This is the point of conversion/association:  When a person becomes so inseparably associated with a unique identifying association that it cannot be changed, is life long, is their (soul and sole) identity for all time that identifying attribute might as well be an IP number.

Dynamic IP numbers simply save a lot of unnecessary overhead to maintain and therefore give them a purpose different from a static IP address.  When dynamic IP addresses have no associated overhead cost and there are more than enough IPv6 numbers to assign then there will not only be a transition to more static IP numbers but a benefit to the use of the system, whatever purpose that might be.

In general, persistence of a conceptual object in a conceptually structured data base is the essential foundation of an object oriented system.  That is my thought.  Maybe more true than not true.  Maybe purely true in terms of time where infinite persistence is the ultimate thing to base anything on?????

Conclusion:  (For example) God gots our number!   But I am agnostic.  However, when the system gots our IoT number that is a different thing.  A good thing or a bad thing.  I conclude by virtue of a WAG (wild ass guess) that the NSA has everyone numbered.  They simply have to number everyone in the haystack to find the bad guy needle.  Same way google works.  Index everything.

If that is possibly true then the NSA identifying number for each and every person may become, (when they are declared to be transparent by law because we will not tolerate spying upon our citizens) the genesis of an open system not aimed at violating our privacy but protecting our privacy in scheme like the one proposed by HTTPa