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I read this story in 4th grade. It felt like the future. Now, it feels like most of the technology is within reach - at least, it could be built. The automated
by thrtythreeforty 2mo ago
I read this story in 4th grade. It felt like the future. Now, it feels like most of the technology is within reach - at least, it could be built. The automated stove being the main exception.
But the most unrealistic part of this story is how all the IoT automation continues to work in the absence of the Internet.
- cautiouscat 2mo agoWe're closer to the stove, kind of. At least with things like Tovala. I've never actually met someone with one though.
- XorNot 2mo agoI really wish we could just get a thermal imager integration for a stove which could catch a pot of boiling water about to boil over and back off the heat automatically.
- cautiouscat 2mo agoBest we can do is Wifi to set your timer.
- mathgeek 2mo agoElectric kettles have done this for decades. The tech is also in sous vide machines.
- automatic6131 2mo ago> In the living room the voice-clock sang, Connecting to Brand(tm) servers... Connecting to Brand(tm) servers... Connecting to Brand(tm) servers...
- inigyou 2mo agoThe fridge dispensed a verification can.
- TheOtherHobbes 2mo agoWhich of these apocalyptic landscapes contain traffic lights?
- inigyou 2mo agoMinecraft Bedrock Edition (the one Microsoft most heavily pushes) uses a traffic light to show when you need to pay more money, I heard.
- tavavex 2mo agoIn the real 2026, the automated firefighting system wouldn't work - it would lose connection to the internet and fail to verify whether the customer is still enrolled in the Max Protection Pro subscription.
- King-Aaron 2mo ago"Bluetooth device connected" "Bluetooth device connected" "Bluetooth device connected"
- troyvit 2mo ago> But the most unrealistic part of this story is how all the IoT automation continues to work in the absence of the Internet. It's actually one way this story about the apocalypse is more hopeful than the present day. We don't need the internet to make most of the things in that story work, but in our timeline we'd add it anyway to get and sell those good analytics.
- XorNot 2mo agoExcept that isn't really why it happened: iot being Internet tied is because it's much, much easier to get devices to work when you control at least one side of the server with skilled professionals rather then your average home user. And no one has really come up with an alternative: home assistant is good, but it's not for the non-techy. I will squarely blame IPv4 for some of this: NAT has meant that the key application people might want to use is broken by default (remote device access) without mediation servers.
- jonahx 2mo ago> it's much, much easier to get devices to work when you control at least one side of the server with skilled professionals rather then your average home user. No, practicality is not the main reason these unnecessary connections are added. The main reasons are 1. to sell and enforce subscriptions and 2. to collect and sell data. Is it just easier to get your car seat warmers to work when they can connect to the internet and make sure you're paid up?
- theamk 2mo agoI have some IoT devices I made for myself. The all connect to the central server (the one I run myself of course). It is much, much easier to do things when central server is around. This is especially true for embedded devices which have limited resources and cannot be updated easily and safely. Close all the incoming ports and the chances of your device joining the botnet fall dramatically. Keep that port open and you'll see yourself mentioned all over the net in the context of "horrible security, don't buy". The only hope is multi-vendor systems which connect to central hub - zigbee, matter, etc.. - but sadly they not very popular, as wifi is everywhere, access is cheap (the chip can found for under $1 today), and hub-based are harder to get started with.
- chpatrick 2mo agoCheck out Home Assistant.
- hamdingers 2mo agoThis. Not only does everything still work in an internet outage, mine actively detects and heals most internet outages by power cycling the modem with a smart plug.
- 127 2mo agoIoT works just fine with Zigbee that can be 100% local.
- ghaff 2mo agoMost of which you don't need IMO. When a bunch of stuff had to be redone after a kitchen fire, I told my electrician that I wanted everything to be dumb.
- trillic 2mo agoDid IoT cause the fire?
- ghaff 2mo agoNo. A 15-year old (so not ancient) dumb microwave. Not a luddite but, aside from a couple of Alexas, just no need for any IoT.
- inigyou 2mo agoHow did you start a fire with a microwave? Plain old electrical fire, rats eating wire insulation?
- ghaff 2mo agoApparently a short circuit in the control panel in the middle of the night. At least that's what the investigator said. I wasn't using it and was asleep. So I didn't start it. Was spontaneous. Didn't seem to be related to any external wiring.
- a96 2mo agoWe had a dishwasher let out the smoke recently. No fire, luckily, just literal smoke and melted plastic. The melted part was the mechanical power switch. Yes, dead simple non-IOT holy century old technology. The parts that fail are almost always the moving parts and almost never the smarts.
- billiam 2mo agoThe vision of the automated stove is partly fulfilled, at least around San Francisco, by the astounding number of people who get all their meals delivered, for the moment by humans but soon robots.
- mathgeek 2mo agoStill looking forward to the foodarackacycle.
- GMoromisato 2mo agoThe other unrealistic part is the absence of ads.