Jonathan Swift, thou shouldst be living at this hour...
The smart toilet era is here! Are you ready to share your analprint with big tech?
Does point out, right at the end, that 3.6 billion people - nearly half the world’s population - have no access to safe sanitation, let alone a loo that can track sleep quality and fibre intake.
though even in this green and ?pleasant? land, Government failing to stop sewage discharge into English rivers and I would consider macro-sanitary issues a higher priority than this kind of tech-bro tweakery.
On the one hand I have images of medieval physicians holding up urine flasks and squinting at them to diagnose their patients.
On the other I imagine a dystopia in which if you work for The Man you lead a comfortable life at the cost of having your every poo monitored along with pretty much everything else you do, while The Rest live in squalid typhoid-ridden slums.
I do wonder if, supposing homes in the future come with smart loos as default (which is rather a massive supposition anyway), will there be a way of turning them off?
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