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		teddyh on April 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my ... > Will we have horror movies based on Internet and IoTs, that would be very exciting. There’s Demon Seed from 1977, an actual horror movie about too-smart devices. The concept was then revisited in 1984 as a romantic comedy, “Electric Dreams”.

nitrogen on April 1, 2021 [–]

There was also a made-for-Disney-TV movie in 1999 called Smart House that kind of approaches horror.

And home automation features briefly in Back to the Future II and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.

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