This is fucking dire.
If an SF author written this while trying to warn us about the internet of things in a dystopian satire, we’d have said this was too heavy handed.
But this is reality now.
If an SF author written this while trying to warn us about the internet of things in a dystopian satire, we’d have said this was too heavy handed.
But this is reality now.
Reposted from
CNN
More than 200 people with diabetes were injured when their insulin pumps shut down unexpectedly due to a problem with a connected mobile app, the FDA says.
Comments
I mean, we found it frustrating when capitalist negligence led to a bad software update bricked our EV charger.
But to be seriously injured by something like that? Fucking criminal and I hope people get charged.
I'm all for government health care takeover, but I just don't see it fixing this particular problem.
Needs to be better standards/ fail-safes regardless of who is signing checks.
https://craphound.com/news/2019/02/11/a-free-excerpt-from-unauthorized-bread-my-latest-audiobook/
Sci-fi dystopias don't predict the horrors of the future, they reflect the horrors that already exist today.
One solar flare and that's it, game over man!
That should be a thing that has enough redundancy that it *cannot* fail anywhere near that frequently.