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Household Emergent Behavior?

Posted by Cliff on from the silly-'intelligent'-household-devices dept.

Sam Pullara asks: "I got an IM from my Mom today telling me that she couldn't find her Roomba. It somehow had escaped the kitchen and she couldn't find it anywhere, all the doors that it could reach were shut and she checked under everything. She eventually found that it had gotten into a room and closed the door behind it. Once all household items are networked I wonder if a rich environment like a house will make strange behavior like this commonplace? Will the interactions between all the individual devices create something more than the sum of their parts?"

3 of 359 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Obligatory bash.org reference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I can't find it anymore but there was a story of a University server that has been forgotten and blocked behind a brick wall. Does anyone have a link?

  2. Re:Obligatory bash.org reference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    My 'bro was telling me about a server problem they had - a novell box. It had been ticking along for years apparantly and they finally found it sheetrocked/remodeled over.

  3. Relevant Short Story by Wovles · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Paul Difilippo wrote an excellent short story about what might happen when household items are able to network.