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There's so much work being done on scalable server tech right now, and enough broadband to use it. O little nudge and we'd be close to having a server appliance that people could have in their own homes, and call from their mobile devices.
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> You'll never be alone again Or, if this bothers you, you can choose to avoid the hedonistic treadmill altogether and not outfit your house with an Alexa, a Kinect, and countless other mostly useless devices that people lived happily without 10 years ago.
The problem with this nice theory is you'll be getting it whether you want it or not. As revenue comes in from the sureillance society, manufacturers will (and alrewady are) crammin the functionality into devices. You, as a customer will have no choice: sooner or later you'll need a new fridge, and a spy fridge will be your only option.
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The problem with this nice theory is you'll be getting it whether you want it or not. As revenue comes in from the sureillance society, manufacturers will (and alrewady are) crammin the functionality into devices. You, as a customer will have no choice: sooner or later you'll need a new fridge, and a spy fridge will be your only option.
And you'll have no choice but to connect it to your network? Or no way to interfere with whatever wireless tech they use ? Seems a little far fetched
That's before considering that the newest version of the BluRay spec mandates network connetivity to authenticate the disk you're playing. Which is a more special case of stupid.