Yes, I wasn’t going for an exhaustive list, just naming some examples.
I was just relating an incident in the deep dark past. An exhaustive list would take a page nowadays. Too many computers running things they don’t need to.
Serious misapplications of the technology.
Another example: A programmable HVAC thermostat is nice. You can set different temperatures for times when nobody is home and for sleep times. One that connects to the internet is just asking for trouble. No sane person would do that IMNSHO.