https://medium.com/@eveningstarnm01/iot-the-challenges-ahead-a88d0339d96

The Space Telescope is a Thing. So are the GEOS weather satellites, and so are airplanes, cars, buildings, rooms, air conditioners, security cameras, televisions, DVRs, faucets, and spoons — and if you don’t think that someone will someday invent a “smart” spoon that will be connected to the internet, you don’t know your species very well. It will likely be programmed to detect and report on the temperature of the food that you’re about to put into your mouth, and to cool it off or heat it up in order to make it just the right temperature, according to your preference. High government officials will be given “smart” spoons that can detect whether or not the food contains poison.

The detectors and effectors that we use today, which permeate our lives, usually report directly to us only when we look at them and change something only when we tell them to. But when they are connected to the internet, they join a huge communications network that is penetrated by criminals and used by powerful interests to manipulate us every day. Others, some of which are not exactly human, can control them — and us.