Cooking Goddess
Chef Extraordinaire
YES! (And, BTW, welcome to DC, Fine) The last thing I want in our house is a thermostat that senses when I'm home, when I leave, and what our preferred temperature setting are. I don't want a refrigerator that can automatically add an ingredient to my electronic shopping list so that it can be ready for me when I pick my grocery order up at the store. I don't want to be tracked! And why not? Well, it all goes back about half a century ago when I read a Ray Bradbury short story called "There Will Come Soft Rains" that scared the bejeebers out of me! Tempting as it is to get a thermostat I can control with my cellphone so I can turn the heat up before I get out of the warm bed in the winter, I'll dash* down the steps to bump the temperature up manually....Sorry for the rant but the way we are slowly loosing any sense of privacy just irks me. Younger generations grow up not having the notion of keeping things private. Every move they make is online, how hard would it be to exploit that?
I love the internet but in terms of privacy I feel we are going downhill.
*Dash as quickly as my creaky joints and old bones will let me, that is.