Posted on 05/10/2018 8:13:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin
20 years from now it will be a bunch of non working units scattered through the house that will be looked at laughingly by people looking to buy the house.
“Alexa, set the curtains on fire.”
In soviet America, house watches you!
I remember a sci-fi story about a house on Mars outfitted with an all capable cyber system, and what it did (robotically keeping up for weeks as though occupied till the house burned down) when the house was abandoned in a nuclear war. Ray Bradbury, “The Martian Chronicles.”
It’s possible if the system becomes a flash in the pan. #1 danger perhaps: being spoofed from outside the house by playing back recordings or simulations of the occupants’ voices.
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