1) The document discusses three technologies - financial trading, massively multiplayer online gaming, and conversational social media - that can provide lessons for building Internet of Things (IoT) systems. 2) For financial trading, the value of time-sensitive data declines rapidly so IoT systems need low-latency processing of real-time data, like Complex Event Processing (CEP). 3) Online games involve asynchronous, multi-player interactions and conversations between users and systems, which are important concepts for designing human-machine interfaces for IoT. 4) Early social media like Twitter emerged from simple status updates but gained rich conversational features through user contributions, showing how IoT systems could also evolve through collaboration.