More machines than people on the Internet

Rise of the robots THE UNITED NATIONS is warning that machines are starting to take over from humans as the biggest users of the world wide wibbly web. The UN's telecommunications agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU)has just penned a report called 'Internet of Things' in which it predicts the next stage in the technological revolution where humans, electronic devices, inanimate objects and databases are linked by a radically transformed Internet. It says that already there are signs that we are heading into a new era where the robotic 'users' of the Internet will be counted in billions and where humans may become the minority as generators and receivers of traffic,' it added."