Cory Doctorow on Nostr: My *Toaster* story is a tale of IoT gone wild, in which the nightmare of a world of ...
My *Toaster* story is a tale of IoT gone wild, in which the nightmare of a world of "smart" devices that exert control over their owners is shown to be a nightmare. A work colleague sent me this adaptation of the story as part of an English textbook, with lots of worksheet-style exercises. I'd never seen this before, and it's very fun:
http://ourenglishclass.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/09/bravetoaster.pdf6/
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