The Rise of the Smart Hoover … A Helper or A Privacy Threat?
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4 min readAug 6, 2022
You know that scene from Terminator, where the robots of the world decide that they have had enough of us and decide to take over the world? And the classic “I can’t do that, Dave” scene from 2001, where HAL decides that Dave is endangering that mission and needs to be permanently removed?
And, the one in Red Dwarf, where the vending machines decided to go on strike? Or, even, Talky Toaster:
Well, robots and AI is increasingly becoming part of your home.
A brave new world or 1984?
When I sometimes present at live events, I give a vision of a future where we are spied on for every microsecond of our lives. In a recent presentation, I demo’ed on how toys, cameras, and a whole lot of devices could spy on us:
