SMART APPLIANCES MAKING US DUMB

Now I know many of you are wondering, how can any appliance can make us dumb. I am talking about SMART appliances my friend.

You don’t believe me? I guarantee that at the end of this article, you will believe me. If you still don’t, then may god help you because the appliances could any time start laughing at you after you read this article.

I know the appliance manufacturers are trying to make our life easy but I have a feeling that they are trying to drive us insane. Of course, they don’t say that. What they say is they want to do is have us live in homes where “all appliances are on the internet, sharing information” and appliance will be “smarter than most of their owners.”

In a recent article I read which was about the same topic, the writer gave an example saying, you would have a home where the dishwasher “can be turned on from office,” the refrigerator “knows when it is out of milk,” and the bathroom scale “transmits your weight to the gym.”

Now, I wonder why would anyone, after loading a dishwasher, go to office to start it? My boss would be too happy to hear that perhaps. “Are you happy to hear this boss?” I can hear him sarcastically, “Yes, perhaps that is exactly what was left in office for you to do now.”

Well, I don’t want my gym to show my weight to me. Isn’t everyone trying to avoid looking at their weights? And what if my gym transmitted that to my refrigerator!! OH NO! My refrigerator would stop opening!

Let’s say, okay we like the appliance. We like its features. But we won’t be able to use them. Just like we can’t use the current appliances’ features now. For example, there are three remotes I have to go through just to watch my favourite programme on Television. My television remotes’ buttons are more than enough for me to operate but alas, that wasn’t sufficient I guess. Because there goes another remote, the VCR remote which has almost equal amount of buttons as the television remote and then the third remote is the cable remote. Oh god! I have to struggle with three remotes just to watch television. Watching television earlier gave me the confidence that the world is just a click away, I will get to know anything about anywhere and then the world is within my reach. But it seems now that my appliance is not within my reach instead I am within the reach of my appliance. And this is when I feel, all the appliances will suddenly start laughing altogether at me. A laughing Appliance Audience! And there is no way to control them because they are smarter than me. That’s what I had warned you earlier.

See this is what I mean. I don’t want my appliances to be smarter than me. I want an appliance to be dumber than me. Just like my wardrobe, my bed and so on. So, that I feel I am the queen dictating over all my appliances and not vice versa! So, please appliances’ manufacturers think before you act! Perhaps even you could be ruled by them!