The telescreen is but a short hop from here.
Dr Val Curtis, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, shows the BBC around her “smart house”.
She shows how the toilet, sink, soap and toothpaste in her bathroom are wired up to a central computer so that she can monitor her family’s hygiene habits.
Why would anyone want to monitor such things? Really? Why? Look at the video – everything is linked to a sensor from the toothpaste to the hand-wash. Good grief!
The system is part of a research project to track our daily behaviour.
I think I’ll pass, if it’s all the same to you…
Weird.
I suppose that’s one way of putting it…
That’s going to be a well-adjusted family. I’m sure.
And she’ll know what you pass as well…
They have magazines, sold in plain brown wrappers, for people like that, I’m told? Dried coconuts and the like.