I actually had a Nest in my Amazon shopping cart about a week ago and just hadn't pulled the trigger...This decision was the end of that idea. I have (embarras

I actually had a Nest in my Amazon shopping cart about a week ago and just hadn't pulled the trigger...This decision was the end of that idea. I have (embarrassingly) come to accept that everything I own will eventually be always connected to the internet, streaming back data to sell me more crap. However, I reject the notion that a hardware device should ever require an internet connection to work. Frankly, that is and will remain a bridge to far. Working with engineering students has taught me that often the most meaningful experience that students have is so called 'service projects' where they work for people who have had vastly less privledge life experiences than themselves. The entrepreneur, techno-weanie, early adopter loves SV and startups. The side of my brain as an educator and a member of a larger society is becoming increasingly concerned about the same people who seem to increasingly live in an echo chamber. My research and teaching focuses on entrepreneurship. A few peers and I have coined the term entrepreneursplaining for the tone deaf actions and responses in situations like this.