I Am As Well As Then Or As Well As Then Going Full-On Luddite

Daisy, Daisy... 
First up, from Threat Post:

Bugs inwards Samsung IoT Hub Leave Smart Home Open To Attack

who published a technical breakdown of the vulnerabilities on Thursday, said each of the flaws are located inwards Samsung’s centralized controller, a cistron that connects to an array of IoT devices around the household – from calorie-free bulbs, thermostats, together with cameras. SmarThings Hub is i of several DIY dwelling household networking devices designed to allow homeowners to remotely grapple together with monitor digital devices....MORE And at Business Insider:

Uber together with Lyft are creating to a greater extent than traffic together with congestion instead of reducing it, according to a novel report

Oh, together with dorsum to Threat Post, July 19:

IoT Robot Vacuum Vulnerabilities Let Hackers Spy on Victims

All of which was, of course, foreseen past times the prophetess.
(I'd become with "sybil" but that mightiness live misinterpreted equally either a miss with multiple personalities or the adult woman who picked upwards the pieces on Fawlty Towers)

The Daisy ref. is an homage to an homage to an homage.

In 2014's "Internet of Things: In Which Izabella Approaches Escape Velocity Edition" nosotros linked to FT Alphaville's Ms. Kaminska's speculative (and grin-inducing) piece:

Cybersecurity dispatches: Managing the IoT poltergeist threat

Imagine the scene inwards the non equally good distant future.

An Uber self-driving electrical motorcar has only dropped you lot home. Your forepart door has recognised your face, together with your fingerprint has authenticated that it’s definitely you. You larn into your house, non a key inwards sight, boot off your shoes, together with happily honour that the 3D printing characteristic inwards your refrigerator has already printed the nutrient you lot programme to eat for dinner. All the appliances you lot withdraw are on. And everything you lot don’t withdraw is off, overnice together with efficiently saving power.

You create upwards one's heed to process yourself to a quick 30-minute Netflix holographic update, entirely to larn a nudge from your wearable tech that you’ve all the same got a 10 infinitesimal practise deficit to run across your daily practise quota. It’s a work because you lot give off to convey signed upwards to the extreme wellness management selection which shuts downward ApplePay access — without which Netflix won’t travel — if you lot neglect to run across your objectives. You apace larn busy on your smart-grid connected treadmill (which conveniently sells off the unloosen energy produced past times your organization dorsum into the grid).

When all of a sudden… your utility door flings opened upwards together with your iRobot Roomba begins singing Daisy, Daisy....MORE

I'm guessing she was riffing off 2001: H5N1 Space Odyssey:

But HAL's vocal was itself an homage:

Why HAL 9000 sang 'Daisy' inwards 2001

... It turns out that inwards 1961, the IBM 7094, alongside the earliest together with largest mainframe machines developed past times the computing giant, became the starting fourth dimension figurer to sing, together with the melody it warbled was—you guessed it—"Daisy Bell." The vocals were programmed past times John Kelly together with Carol Lockbaum, piece the musical accompaniment was programmed past times Max Mathews. It seems for certain that Kubrick used this equally the inspiration for HAL's signoff inwards his movie.

H5N1 recording of the IBM 7094's rendition is below....blastr

And at that spot you lot go.
And people all the same don't regard a compelling withdraw for connected homes.

Here are a few dozen of our IoT posts.

The listing of Uber posts is five times equally large.