Internet at 30: Consequences?

[dewline]

Do we really want an Internet of Things?

Maybe I've been listening to too many episodes of Spark...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/internet-turns-30-1.5058396

Comments

[sabotabby]

Have you read Click Here To Kill Everybody?

We do not want an Internet of Things.

[dewline]

Not yet, and I suspect that I know where the book with such a title will take its readers.

[thewayne]

I most certainly do not. I thought it was a bad idea when such devices started appearing, and nothing has improved my opinion.

A friend of mine in DC woke up in the middle of the night hearing voices. Thinking it was a burglary in progress, he crept downstairs. It was his Amazon or Google device complaining that there had been a power failure and it was no longer connected to the internet.

[dewline]

(monotone, monospaced font)Whaaaaah.

[agoodwinsmith]

I don't.

I want something that will clean a bathroom (all of it, all parts, all sparkling and lovely) all on its own.