The API-ification of everything

One of the main concepts of the book is the idea that every object in the world would eventually have an API—a "daemon" that presents its state, capabilities, and allows interaction in a standardized way. "All objects will have these daemons. Cars, houses, buildings, cities, businesses, etc. People will interact with objects through their daemons, which will be fully functioning interfaces that allow you to push and pull information as well as modify configurations and execute commands. "— The Real Internet of Things, December 2016 I was describing what we'd now call the API-ification of everything, or more specifically, what MCP (Model Context Protocol) is becoming.

At least for services infrastructure. Analysis: This one feels pretty good, but API-ification is still just on certain kinds of digital things. The MCP ecosystem now has 10,000+ servers and 97 million monthly SDK downloads. Every major AI platform adopted it. The "everything gets an API" vision is genuinely happening, but I don't see many park benches or restaurants with APIs yet.

VERDICT: Core idea happening, but implementation still limited.