March 10, 2015
The rise of the industrial Internet may not lead to the creation of great numbers of jobs for humans, as opposed to robots. But the entire economy will benefit from the resources freed by increased efficiency and reduced waste. The industrial Internet can boost our exports, as a revolution largely forged in the United States spreads to the rest of the world. And just as the earlier version of the Internet created entirely new industries, like online marketing and social media consulting, new occupations that we cannot even imagine today are certain to emerge as machines start talking to machines.