The Internet has gone through a major transition: in the year 2015, the number of devices connected by the Internet surpassed the number of people connected by the Internet. Public policymakers need to move past the idea that the Internet is something that we experience through a browser, using our mobile phones and personal computers. The Internet of Things (IoT) is here.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/03/04-closed-platform-internet-of-things-howard