Engineers hold the future in their hands, whether they realize it or not. The things they create shape the world we live in and now that the Internet of Things (IoT) is so prevalent in our lives, there’s even more they can do. We had a chance to chat with Robbie Paul, Director of IoT Business Development with Digi-Key Electronics about just how big and powerful the IoT really is and how engineers can use their work as a force of change for the future (and even the present, at this rate). And while we hear about it more today, and engineers work on it much more, IoT isn’t new. It’s gone through several iterations and name changes over the years. From machine-to-machine learning to various other pseudonyms, people have been trying to figure out “how to get the human out of the whole machine to machine connection and add intelligence at different levels,” as Paul puts it, for some time.