On the Future of the Internet of Things: Revisiting the Roadmap to the Programmable World

Nearly ten years ago, we wrote a paper that presented a roadmap to the Programmable World in the context of the Internet of Things. In that paper, we defined a future roadmap that started from cloud-centric, data-centric IoT systems to a world where everyday objects are connected and the edge of the network is universally programmable. In this paper, we revisit the predictions of our earlier paper and evaluate how well we succeeded in forecasting what actually happened. In addition, we take a look towards the future over the next ten years.