The Internet of Personification

By Matt S Trout (‎mst‎) from northwestengland.pm, dahut.pm, drinkers.pm, lgbt.pm
Date: Saturday, 8 November 2014 15:40
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: iot people stuff things wat

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We treat our devices like small people, being angry when they fail and happy when they do what we want.

What if we designed our software the same way?

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Attended by: Toby Inkster (‎tobyink‎), David Dorward, Pedro Figueiredo (‎pfig‎), Erik Colson (‎ecocode‎), James Green (‎jkg‎), Steven Humphrey, Dinis Rebolo (‎drebolo‎), Ulrich Habel (‎rhaen‎), Alex Balhatchet (‎Kaoru‎), vytas, Pierre Masci (‎mascip‎), Peter Mottram (‎SysPete‎), Peter Makholm (‎brother‎), Andrew Jones, Mohammad Anwar (‎manwar‎), Imran Chaudhry (‎icjs‎), Lukas Mai (‎mauke‎), Mike Whitaker (‎Penfold‎), Sam Kington (‎skington‎), Alex Burzyński (‎AJGB‎), Merlyn Kline, Paulo Favinha (‎Favinha‎), Gianni Ceccarelli (‎dakkar‎), Martin Brooks (‎SlayerXP‎), Tom Williams, Lars Thegler (‎tagg‎), Torbjørn Lindahl, Mark Stringer (‎mullet‎), James Mastros (‎theorbtwo‎), Leo Lapworth (‎ranguard‎), Peter Haworth (‎pmh1wheel‎), Marco Fontani (‎mfontani‎), Venkatesh R (‎Venki‎), Jarle Hakas, Ian Brierley, JJ Allen, steve mynott (‎itz‎), Aaron Crane (‎arc‎), Warren Humphreys (‎woz‎), mark ellis (‎n0body‎), Graeme Lawton (‎Grim‎), Hugo Areias (‎hugoareias‎), Daniel Collins (‎solemnwarning‎), Claes Jakobsson (‎claes‎), Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos, Nikoletta Kourtidou, Nohfu8Ie eeki2Eej (‎uch5Isi7‎), Brian Manning (‎xaoc‎), Jess Robinson (‎castaway‎), Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (‎ilmari‎), Søren Lund (‎slu‎),