Yves Dorfsman wrote:
>I am convinced that in our lifetime all our home devices will call home when
>they are breaking down. You might have a button on your fridge to authorize
>the technician to get in after he sent you an email, but s/he will want to
>connect to the fridge to run a few diagnosis before s/he comes to your place
>with the right part.
Until now, most refrigerators and similar home appliances would generally
work reliably for ten or twenty years. Getting remote diagnostics sounds
like a recipe for a regression in reliability. Software-controlled systems
on your Toyota, anyone?
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Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359
d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."
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