ABSTRACT
We then move to examining how the Internet of Things gives new frontiers to the active, performative relationship between people and memory objects that social media have introduced into digital heritage. Connected to the Internet, a material artifact may know, for example, where it has been and with whom, and have the same knowledge about other artifacts within the same network. Connected artifacts are embedded with software, networked to online databases and cloud services, increasingly equipped with sensors and actuators enabling them to sense and physically act upon their environment, and are operated by algorithms performing data processing and automated reasoning. A classic example in consumer electronics is the ‘smart fridge’, which sends a noti cation to its owners’ phone informing them about the grocery items they need and their location.
