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MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS: Everything, literally everything, will be connected. But can Zuckerberg first connect the world?

BARCELONA – A new phone for BlackBerry, the Samsung S5 and Samsung wearable Gear updates, the Sony Smartband, more than a dozen smart cars, a number of smart appliances and thermostats. But when you see smart, connected clothing, that’s when it dawns on you that this industry wants to connect everything, literally.And I’m not using “literally” in the mistaken, teenage way, but the actual way the word is meant to be used.Whether or not the world’s consumers want everything to be connected, or want to ‘log their life’, to paraphrase Sony, is an unanswered question (I sure don’t, so that’s...