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The control logic layer represents the logic embedded in the billions of devices, computers, and other smart components comprising the physical infrastructure of cyberspace. While the spread and ubiquitous presence of this logic make it impossible to literally observe a physical manifestation of this layer, its effect is no less real and is, more importantly, essential to an understanding of the behaviors of cyberspace's fundamental properties. Indeed, the extraordinary efficiency of cyberspace in routing, storing, correlating, and rerouting increasingly massive and complex flows of information is almost wholly dependent on the delegation of these tasks to the logic embedded in this layer.

This is the layer that makes it possible for computers to interact with one another without human interaction as they make the myriad choices needed to sustain coherent and orderly interactions among billions of human and machine users interconnected through cyberspace. The result gives rise to what is increasingly referred to as the Internet of Things, or IoT: Machines interacting with other machines, all programmed to anticipate and exceed the expectations of people who have little direct involvement with, or even understanding of, the technological complexities involved.