This reminds me of some cheesy 1970s scifi movie where the house computer (the house's "consciousness", if you will) takes a woman hostage in her own house and impregnates her (where it got the sperm, I have no idea -- I was probably 11 or 12 when I saw it on television one Sunday afternoon). She tries to sabotage this by refusing to eat -- but the house heats up the floor so she can't do anything but give in. She hopes one of her friends will come save her but the computer manipulates some video of her and uses that to brush off anyone who tries to video-call or come to the front door.

ANybody else remember this movie?

Huh, no, but sounds like one I'd love! TB
Imperatrix | Homepage | 27.09.07 - 11:46 am | #

I have enough trouble with Microsoft thinking it knows what I want to type and auto-'correcting' things that were right in the first place. I would hate this. And I don't have a supermarket loyalty card, either.

I know people who use sat-nav to drive along a straight road. They have already lost the ability to use their sense to find their way about, and don't bother to remember routes because they are so used to being told them. We exercise our brains by having to remember this sort of thing.

I suppose, in the way that someone a generation ago would have walked or cycled to work but now drives to the gym to take carefully regulated amounts of exercise, in a few years we will be set memory and brainwork tasks to exercise those parts of the mind that aren't being used any more in everyday life.
z | Homepage | 27.09.07 - 11:48 am | #

It IS all fantastic stuff but as you say it comes at a price.

At the moment I don't much mind, but when we are all drons of the big MS I may think differently...

It set the little grey cells working.

Good, that's the best result I could have. TB
AFC30K | Homepage | 27.09.07 - 4:57 pm | #

Good post, and make sure to beware of the Food Police Boy. Cheers!!

Can you imagine? Opening up a can the wrong brand of baked beans, and all sorts of red lights flash and sirens honk. Men in combat wear smash through the windows and you're thrown in jail (a jail sponsored by Heinz of course)... TB
Matt-Man | Homepage | 27.09.07 - 5:52 pm | #

Truly terrifying!!

My wife n daughter nag me that I drink a lot. I'm not havin' the soddin' house startin' n' all!!

Its worse, it wouldn't let you have the drink in the first place! TB
Four Dinners | Homepage | 28.09.07 - 5:08 pm | #