Speculation is rife on how the 23bn-odd (and counting) "things" will improve quality of life, streamline business operations and ultimately fuel economic benefits to the tune of up to $11tn per year by 2025.
It's distressing that so much of our time is spent squinting through screens, screens that promise to make life better, make life streamlined -- but indeed make it complex, cluttered, a blur, numbing, less meaningful.
These days, style-sensitized shoppers are awash in the totems of the good-looking life, from streamlined Palm Pilots to candy-colored Nokia phones to shapely, contoured brooms.
IT'S 11 26 a.m. in California and Tim Ferriss, who has turned his personal tactics for streamlining life's chores and savoring its pleasures into best-selling books like "The 4-Hour Workweek" and "The 4-Hour Chef," is timing himself to see how fast he can get from his house to his departure gate at San Francisco International Airport.
Simplicity: Make life easier by streamlining material possessions, activities, communication, etc. Patience: Free your mind of negative emotions by choosing to be patient with yourself, with others, and with life.
Having spent years of his life devoted to streamlining and perfecting the MRI machine, it wasn't until he took a human-centered approach to design and innovation, letting compassion and empathy for others be his guide, that he began to truly push the limits of his work and find avenues of progress he couldn't have imagined before.
ON O2Simplify, a Web site devoted to streamlining daily life, there is a guide to planning a New Year's Eve party that contains 62 tips, not one of them "Buy more tequila".
When we think or talk about minimalism it is like streamlining your life and it starts with the mind.
Strobel inspired us with her take on streamlining her life: "So I think not being constrained by stuff can be really liberating and it can allow you or others to focus on their loved ones".
The overall reduction in regulatory capacity could be viewed as streamlining for life in a relatively static environment.
