I think it's worth looking into. For that matter, it might be worth reading the book. As I said, they only reported on people who talked to them, and they were rosy as fuck; that said, they talked to Ford, which apparently plans on consolidating down to economy, luxury and mid-size cars that are going to be largely differentiated by software.

My problem with "the Internet of Things" is that it used to be called "telemetry." Telemetry is valuable - it gives you instrumentation for things you need to know. 'The Internet of Things' is predicated on putting sensors on shit and then figuring out how you're going to use them. It's the wrong approach, in my opinion; not everything that sucks power needs an IP address. Somethings definitely benefit though. GM wants to call it "the Industrial Internet" and observes that if telemetry improves the efficiency of their aircraft engines by 1%, it'll save airlines three billion dollars. That's a very different discussion than the "smart fridges" that are generally talked about by breathless tech evangelists after every CES.