‘The Internet of Things’ by Rob van Kranenburg out now Download the pdf or order paper copies for free INC Network Notebook #2 Rob van Kranenburg, The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID. Report prepared by Rob van Kranenburg for the Institute of Network Cultures with contributions by Sean Dodson. 64 pages, design by Léon & Loes The Internet of Things - Network Notebook Launch Date and time: Tuesday 28 October 2008 at 17h00 Location: Waag Society, Theatrum Anatomicum, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam Free entrance, send an email to reserveren@waag.org if you want to attend the launch. The Internet of Things is the second issue in the series of Network Notebooks. It’s a critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID by Rob van Kranenburg. Rob examines what impact RFID and other systems, will have on our cities and our wider society. He currently works at Waag Society as program leader for the Public Domain and wrote earlier an article about this topic in the Waag magazine and is the co-founder of the DIFR Network. The notebook features an introduction by journalist and writer Sean Dodson. The launch includes short presentations from Martijn de Waal, Eric Kluitenberg and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, and a discussion, led by Geert Lovink. In Network Notebook #2, titled The Internet of Things, Rob van Kranenburg outlines his vision of the future. He tells of his early encounters with the kind of location-based technologies that will soon become commonplace, and what they may mean for us all. He explores the emergence of the “internet of things”, tracing us through its origins in the mundane back-end world of the international supply chain to the domestic applications that already exist in an embryonic stage. He also explains how the adoption of he technologies of the City Control is not inevitable, nor something that we must kindly accept nor sleepwalk into. In van Kranenburg’s account of the creation of the international network of Bricolabs, he also suggests how each of us can help contribute to building technologies of trust and empower ourselves in the age of mass surveillance and ambient technologies. Table of Contents: 1. Forward: A tale of two cities Sean Dodson 2. Ambient Intelligence and its promises 3. Ambient Intelligence and its catches 4. Bricolabs 5. How to act This issue is free available in print and pdf form: http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/notebook2_theinternetofthings.pdf To receive a paper copy of The Internet of Things send an email to books (at) networkcultures.org. The Network Notebooks series is edited by Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer. Network Notebooks #2 is supported by Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) and Waag Society. For Network Notebooks 01 by Rosalind Gill see: Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? . http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/network-notebooks/ Press: Please contact Rob van Kranenburg at Waag Society, email rob (at) waag.org.