AI, the metaverse, autonomous cars, cryptocurrencies… How many have promised us that these innovations will disrupt our daily lives. But many of them have not (yet) produced the expected effect. For this third episode, we are interested in connected objects, which have invaded our lives and yet do not seem to convince users.
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The team: Charlotte Baris (presentation and writing), Jules Krot (editing and direction)
Credits: Canal +, Gaumont, Europe 1
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Logo: Jérémy Cambour
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Charlotte Baris: It’s Sunday and you’ve just been woken up not by music or a stressful alarm, but by a dawn simulator. Around 9 a.m., after monitoring your sleep pattern, the device gradually illuminates your room with an orange light… From your bed, you were able to activate the coffee machine with an application. While you eat breakfast, your son plays with an educational robot. The child answers questions, and the little robot checks them.
Sunday is also the day you like to go running. For this, no need to carry your phone: a connected watch is enough. It allows you to track your heart rate and trace your route very precisely. When you get home, you post all the statistics on an app to show them to your friends.
I could go on like this for quite some time to describe a typical day where we can interact with a large number of connected objects. This is obviously a demonstration taken to the extreme. But even if our daily lives are invaded by these machines, we can call it a flop. We explain everything to you in this episode.
To go further:
Electric and autonomous cars: these gaping security flaws that attract hackers
Bank cards, Netflix codes, passports… On the darknet, a supermarket of stolen data
“Connected objects strip us of our free will”