The Internet of Things (IoT) is a scenario in which anything with intelligence (humans, animals, objects) will have an online presence, generating data that could be put to uses currently unimagined.

It's a pretty scary thought, since it would mean any other natural or man-made object that can be assigned an IP address and provided with the ability to transfer data over a network without us humans even knowing about it.

But you don't have to slip through an economic business book to understand this dynamism in the internet. NeoMam Studios has provided this simple infographic for Wish.co.uk to help you prepare for the impending rise of the machines: