Excellent write-up. Good to know about Google acquiring the inside of people's homes via Pokemon Go. Google is a government property, btw. Duckduckgo is a superior search engine.
Demon seed was a film which came out in 1977 and showed in dramatic fashion what a smart house can do when it gets too smart.
This is the internet of things our CIA director is so giddy about. Those with a functioning brain stem are forced to take matters into their own hands and become a Luddite in many ways (by today's standards).
Antiques are nice. Older vehicles are nice. Old formats of media (vhs, vinyl) are very nice. Old houses are dead sexy.
Adopting the newest fad is for lemmings. Sleeping with your phone and carrying it everywhere in your hip pocket is good if you want cancer.