When a planet absorbs a meteorite or a cat breathes, the identity of the planet or the cat is not altered.

I want all my possessions to be networked so I can get in touch with them via a Web site or my phone. Please, network my pants so I can go to my pants’ Web site and find out if they’re in my closet or at the cleaners, or if they need to be brought to the cleaners.
…
[The problem with developing an online network of tangible objects, besides cost of nodes] is that researchers and companies have been annoyingly slow in coming up with compelling Web of Things applications. There are environmental sensor networks that can monitor the health of crops, and you can buy large, expensive GPS sensors for tracking shipping containers. But what good does that do us consumers? Besides home-energy monitoring, the only apps Guinard [scientist, researching the Internet of Things] could name as currently in play are shoplifting security for stores and soil-moisture monitoring for plant-care services.
…
We may not even have to wait for mass-marketed tags and readers in order to start tracking our stuff. …as our mobile phones get smarter, they should be able to use their cameras to map and link that info to GPS data in order to create a map of our earthly possessions.
…
Imagine! Thanks to our phones, not only will the network know where everyone’s stuff is, but it will be easier for all of us to envy and acquire each other’s things. Finally, a solution to that vexing lack of consumerism that has been plaguing society for so long. Just please leave my pants out of it. Though if your phone happens to spot them, please have it ring my phone. I’ve been looking everywhere.

Impatient Futurist: The Internet of Things