Watch out: Your gadgets are smarter than you are, and it’s moving you down the food chain

‘Watch out: Your gadgets are smarter than you are, and it may be endangering you. We human beings have always fancied ourselves as the apex organisms of this planet. Going by our accomplishments in technology, infrastructure, and the like, it certainly seemed to have been that way for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. We’ve done all we can to make our lives as comfortable and as convenient as possible, and because of that, we could very easily lose our spot at the top of the food chain. Face the facts: our ever-growing reliance on technology is going to bump us down a few notches.
One recent article by law and technology scholar Joshua A.T. Fairfield serves as a grim reminder of how far technology has come, how much we’re lagging behind, and how badly it can cost us. Fairfield wrote about how “Internet of things” devices, or Internet-connected devices, have become so prevalent that they can be anything from vacuum cleaners to erotic massage devices. In order to accomplish what they were built to do, these products require our personal information — personal information that their manufacturers have easy access to.’
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