The internet of annoying things and vacuous jargon

One of the truly annoying things about the mainstream computing industry is the quest for the Next Big Thing and all the baloney jargon associated with it. Generally things seem to get re-invented on around a ten year cycle and given new names so the excited techno-sheep don't notice as they flock to the next piece of greener grass. All our developers are doing Scrum now - which is new and trendy - but seems to be a coming together of bits of other methodologies that have re-coalesced into something very like what I was doing 15+ years ago (I think we called DSDM back then).

The buzzword that really gets up my nose at the moment is... I can hardly bear to write the words... The Internet Of Things. There - that wasn't too painful - I managed to stop myself throwing up too!

I hate that phrase! It surprises even me that I hate it so much, but I do. Why do I hate it?

1. It sounds like a separate system - the internet of things. Its not, its just the same old internet.
2. The "things" (to adopt the meaningless nonsense jargon) do not make up the internet... They are just a small subset of the peripherals connected to it.
3. The internet has always had "things" connected to it, and been made up of things. Its made up of cables, routers and whatnot and has things called computers, webcams etc. connected to it. And lots of other stuff too - scientific equipment..., you name it. One of the earliest things you could do on the internet was log onto somebody else's supercomputer in some other country and run your jobs on it. It doesn't get much cooler than that.
4. "Things" is a word that conveys the bare minimum of information. The Things they are talking about are sensors, mechanisms and cool consumer devices. Why can't they just say the new big thing is "cool consumer stuff you can connect to the internet". Far too accessible to normal people I suspect. And less like a bandwagon everyone needs to jump on to avoid being "left behind".
5. The really cool developments around the internet in recent years - the whole web 2 thing - is the way people can connect to people. Web 2 has been(and is) about the Internet of People. I'd argue that people are far cooler than things as connectees to the internet - they do random and surprisng stuff - like raising money, forming pressure campaigns, trading, making friends, falling in love, being heard. Things can't do any of that. To me, Web 3 will be about extending how people can connect to each other and reach out, not about allowing them to switch on their Sunday roast (although that's fine too - just not very interesting!).

Please, can this IoT jargon go way? I'm hoping for a big social media-led backlash on this one!