grumpyf1

In the olden days, a fridge did a relatively simple job of keeping things cold; Spam, for example. Now they can apparently send you it as well. That’s the thing about technology. You chug along quite nicely, grateful for the really clever stuff, like pacemakers, satellite navigation systems, and the ability to turn the sound off on the TV from the comfort of your armchair whenever Miley Cyrus gets a mention. Then, without you having even considered that it might need to be a ‘thing’, you’re trying to figure out why someone might feel the need to own a toilet that can be flushed using an app on their iPhone. Or how knowing how many miles your twitter friends have run because their automatic logging system insists on telling you, is actually making your life better in any remotely measurable way. Whilst you might expect to find chips in your freezer, it’s the non-potato based ones that are now posing an unprecedented threat. It seems that the proliferation of domestic applianc...