Sep 3, 2013 3:25 PM

There is no particular danger of toasters talking

Sep 3, 2013 3:25 PM

*Ubiquity is gonna be weird in ways other than the ways described here... but nevertheless, that is a really weird article. Reading it is like hearing something living tapping on the inside of an egg.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/if-this-toaster-could-talk/279276/

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