Methinks the recent FCC declaration that the internet is a "public" utility, and the spawn of pending regulations is a tip-off that the government is making every effort and plan to abuse it. . . sheeple to the slaughter.
Connecting things to another device that controls them makes you dependent on the connection. If it fails, you go back to manual mode, which you forgot how to use.
“self-driving” cars will cause many accidents, because the humans will lose the skill that they developed by driving. When the danmed thing beeps, it will be “what the xxxx do I do now?”
Does my TV have channel/volume controls? I dunno. Use the remote.