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[–] Icy-Defiance 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

You're pretty much right. It's just things connecting to the internet without a user telling them what to do. To a techie, that's called automation, but a lot of people like having fancy terms for things they don't understand.

"The cloud" is another one. It's just servers doing server things, but everyone's like "so mysterious and futuristic".

I think it all comes from marketers needing buzzwords to convince managers to do things, but who knows.