Is it "smart" to depend on electricity as much as we do? What's so "smart" about a grid upon which large portions of the population depend for their very lives and entertainment? Folks may equate technology and electricity with "smarts," but I'm not so sure. Besides, you don't need electricity to brew beer.
I’m fond of refrigerators and air conditioning and light switches and computers and all sorts of stuff. Never thought of them as dumb. I bet the Mayans would have thought a guy with a flashlight was god