#let me say 'Toaster - Mark's toast' or 'Toaster - Level 5' and the bread I put in earlier pops down while I'm busy cooking

[catididnt]

The thing is that a lot of these would be helpful. A lot of this tech is great. Let me feed my cats if my meeting goes late or I don’t want to swing home. Maybe I don’t want it on a timer for reasons, maybe they need meds and this is the backup, maybe I just like feeding my cats and I’m thrilled I can ‘feed’ them when I’m not there. Whatever, it’s a neat thing. BUT it needs to be reliable. None of these are really tested, their QA is laughable. 

There is no reason we can’t have fun neat stuff! There is no reason all our neat stuff should be so breakable, so unfixable, so obsolete.

I still wouldn’t connect a car to the internet. WTH guys? I’s a car. That’s not “it doesn’t really need it” but “it’s very dangerous to require it.” Can you image if that happened in a tunnel? Or on a steeper incline? Bad weather?

Welcome to the future, where you don’t own anything and the stuff you rent stops working once your phone has no signal.