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Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working?

Posted by Soulskill on from the all-the-robots-that-killed-us dept.

Leomania writes: After watching a post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi short on YouTube (there are quite a few) and then having our robot vacuum take off and start working the room, I just wondered what would be the last electric/electronic device still functioning if humans were suddenly gone. I don't mean sitting there with no power but would work if the power came back on; rather, something continuously powered, doing the task it was designed for. Are we talking a few years, decades, or far longer?

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  1. Re:satellites by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Nokia 3310 will outlast them all.

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