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The hazards and wonders of home automation/smart homes and artificial home assistants have been a topic of sci-fi for ages.
by mkr-hn 5y ago
The hazards and wonders of home automation/smart homes and artificial home assistants have been a topic of sci-fi for ages.
- dTal 5y agoIndeed, but the aspect of the Red Dwarf toaster that really lands today is the unnecessarily extreme sophistication, coupled with the unrelenting effort to occupy more and more of the user's life. Douglas Adams touched upon these themes as well, generally via the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, but it wasn't quite so-on-the-nose.