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“Perhaps most important to the future of IoT in the workplace is rethinking the workplace… The challenge is to connect everything without losing human interaction—that old chestnut of having people around the table but they’re all staring at their smartphones. [Sam Yen, chief design officer at enterprise tech and software giant SAP]’s task as a designer is to avoid that isolation and humanize technology, using it as a way to get teams together and preserve the human feeling of teamwork, even if they’re not physically together.”