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Modern technology, while useful, has been somewhat of a disappointment to those of us of a certain generation. I mean, it's nice to have access to the sum of human knowledge at my fingertips - as well as order a pizza or a ride whenever I need it - but where is my hoverboard? My flying car?

And while technology can be harnessed to solve the world's most pressing and complex issues - clean energy, mitigating poverty and inequality, curing diseases; just to name a few - we seem to spend an awful lot of time on trying to make the smart technologies even more convenient for ourselves. Who cares if the planet is burning up outside if our home appliances can automatically adjust the temperature inside, using an app that cleverly measures our body temperature thus avoiding the need to laboriously stand up an walk over to the thermostat? Such are the modern times!

The Twitter account Internet of Sh*t recognizes our obsession with frivolous, useless and downright invasive new technologies and there's nothing better than to poke fun at it. Because nobody really wants a world where Facebook controls our money and reads our minds with brain-machine interfaces, do we? Perhaps we could focus a little more on say - an alternative to plastics and fossil fuels - and less on building a hyper-convenient, dystopian world of mind control, data harvesting and artificially intelligent fridges?

Scroll down to check out some of the public shaming from Internet of Sh*t for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments below!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the nice things about law breakers is they are usually quite stupid.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

New code must be eight characters long and contain at least one lowercase letter, one uppercase letter, one number, and one special character.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish things were made like they used too. So much waste because of corporate greed. Fridges lasted 20+ years, cars lasted just as long if not longer. Now things last half that time if that. We have become such a throwaway and wasteful society.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can think of a few people that needs this, for some reason their voice volume whilst on the phone increases.

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Internet Technology has its place but not on a blender or half these things.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just got a Google Home and if this tap is anywhere near as good as that, I'll be wasting 100s of liters of waters every time I want to fill a pan.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a box bolted to the ground with a padlock. I leave a note for the delivery person, "Please place in box and close padlock. Thank you." It used to be chained to the post on my patio, and the railing of the walkway before that at each place I've lived. Exactly ZERO packages stolen in 20 years.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you don't want Alexa recording you - ok. But are you aware your cell phone, and tablet do the same thing? Are you aware your computer probably does too?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All comes out of the same faucet, my city has water fountains with cold filtered water for free

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love eating. Now, why the f*ck would I want to get an electronic fork that destroys the immersion (if you wanna call it so) by annoying me way more than even the most helicoptering parents could? Also, I probably can't eat while it's doing a software update. I'd like to throw it out in the garbage, but my shoes are updating at the moment...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is funny here is that everyone around the world look at the chinese (asian people in general) as having very similar faces. (I think i did a great job of saying that without seeming racist)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoever buys this: if we're friends - we're not anymore.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Eh, it’s not like that generation has much of a future anyway. Let them have fun I guess.

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