In today's world, our PCs are running off 1-4 GB of RAM or memory. That was the entire database of a large conglomerate back in the 80s. Today's PC has graphics that show gaming characters to be lively, vibrant and very human like. I think next they will have holographic images that can jump out and have an actual high-speed car chase in my living room.
However, I did read a recent article stating how household appliances are also getting smarter. This is very typical of the West. What's the point of making some appliance smarter that an average human user when an average normal user can't even stop the blinking "12:00" in a 20 year old VCR technology. Also these Westerners will make movies where there are Robots in the future or a central computer controlling our all appliances in the city and then one day....BAM!!! They turn against you, chop people into McNuggets and take over the world!! They make these movies but they don't pay attention to them. Didn't they watch "Terminator"?????
I did read about it and even saw some of these appliances sometime back. Smart devices like a refrigerator who can tell when you are out of milk, eggs, etc, a dishwasher or microwave that you can turn on from the office and a bathroom scale that transmits your weight to the gym. I am not sure why you NEED to turn on your appliances from the office. Are bosses impressed by it these days? It takes about 6-8 minutes to cook up a microwave dinner. That's shorter that it takes for a woman to undress, let alone shower, freshen up, etc. It's shorter that it takes for us men to scratch ourselves. What's the time constraint you are trying to solve here?
You don't need to start a dishwasher from the office, just invent one who will know you put dirty dishes on the kitchen counter or sink and it will yell at you, "Hey MORON!, Put those dishes here or I will tell the toilet bowl to flush upwards next time!". Likewise I don't need a fridge to tell me when the milk or eggs are out. I already have 2 VERY full proof systems today. My Mom and my wife. I would rather a fridge who knows I am going for my 4th helping of leftovers or snacks in the last 2 hours and refuse to open the door. I don't even want to know why anyone would want to transmit their body weight to the gym or anyway. I will be having nightmares of those tight body trainers at the gym laughing hysterically at my weight every time it comes in, "Oh My God! He is STILL growing!!!"
The horror is when the appliances learn to talk to each other.
Scale, "Did you know he put on another 2 kg last night1" The nerve of him. When he stepped on me, I could feel my alternator dual coil translucent modulator hanging on for dear life!";
Fridge, "What do you expect? That human whale ate a tub of Baskin Robbins and some onion dip right off the container. I am surprised he hasn't exploded yet!".
Toilet Bowl, "When he sits, his ass just spills all over my seat like a freaking cupcake!!".
Another thing is the user manual. Most look like its written by Martians with dyslexic problems. The have statements like "To enable the VGA demodulator for visual crispness, Enter the Command Monitoring Mode, select Edit and then change the default to reflect the situation in the Middle East to random focus and then bring the cosine after you removed the x from Pi."
So to those crack-smoking, exhaust-inhaling appliance researchers, we don't want our appliances to be smarter than us. We want them dumb like furniture or some of our Members of Parliament. I am sure my PC is already smart. In fact while I am typing these words, it is passing its time calculating all the text returns of Peninsula Malaysia as well as translating the works of Deepak Chopra to Rap. It may also be communicating to other appliances trying to stop me from advocating against smart appliances. In fact at any time, it may just pull th
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