🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About Smart Devices?

Do smart devices pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation to the.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Jersey demand of arms for the pub test today smart
devices do they pass the pub test?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (00:08):
I'm talking about this in the latest episode of Double
a Chatty, the podcast I did with my friend Anita,
and she started the conversation by saying she'd read about
a smart toilet. She thought it was going to be
one of those Japanese ones that plays music and all
the rest of it. But what it does is it
actually analyzes your waste products. And then she was thinking, well,
if it does that, where does that information go? Could

(00:28):
it go to an insurance company, could it go to
my employer? Does it go to a doctor? And they
have this information that I doam not even know where
they have exactly. We have a whole lot of smart devices,
our phones, our computers, all of that, but more and
more family gadgets are being hooked up as smart device.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
My wife's car, for example, so she goes that as
a toilet. So it's a nice car, it's a BMW
nice car. And anyway, get a call the other day
it's due for a service or the telemetry your car
is due for a service, and Helen says, oh, ability
take it for its service, and I said, well, this
is where they go and change the wiper fluor and
it cost me two and a half grand and you
get a coffee. That's what they do.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Well, that's the thing, all this telemetry, But where is
your data going? Are you being protected from where it's going?
I said earlier that we had a Google Home that
I loved. I used a lot. What's the temperate what's
the weather going to be like tomorrow? Can you set
a time for twelve minutes I'm cooking biscuits, that kind
of thing. When we unplugged it to paint the kitchen,
Harley looked at all the microphone attachments and all the

(01:29):
stuff you'd have to reset put it back on, and
he said, this is going in the bin.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Having said that though we control the stuff, it's like
you control your car. I can choose to take my
car to anyone to get serviced. I don't have to
take it to BMW and spend a fortune on it.
We take it.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
We think we're in control of this stuff, but are
we smart devices? Do they pass the pub test?

Speaker 5 (01:49):
I love my smartphone, however, it really gives me the
eric when you're talking about something, or you googling something.
The next time you jump on a Facebook and everything
you've are you talking about or googling, is there right
in your news feed. So as far as I'm consumed,
little aliens, take your little bags and go away.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I think smart devices class the PUB test because people
are relying on smart devices more and more, and the
more they get smart, the more we get done because
we just allow them to do all the thinking, and
I think we should start thinking for ourselves again.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
I think they passed the PUB test. I mean, we
all have iPhones now, so what's another little thing that's
satted on? Why don't they always have our data for
everything else? But it's also got me thinking, like I
did one of those ancestry DNA tests, so they're going
to get that through that as well. What are they
doing with that DNA?

Speaker 4 (02:38):
That's another thing that worries me. I wouldn't do one
of those, I don't think right, because you don't know
where your DNA.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Ends are Bush range of Keller.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
That's why I'm going to live off grid.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Be one of those cookers.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, isn't that going well?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's going well right now?

Speaker 4 (02:54):
They got him yet, No