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The article doesn’t make this fully explicit, but The Electric House can be described very easily in contemporary terms: a self-taught technician installs a home automation system for a client, but a hacker gains access and basically wrecks the lives of everyone living there.

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If I may expand on the observation...

Spinning Jenny was a type of knitting machine (a multi spindle spinning frame) that brought multi-fold increase to operator's output. A typo f optimization if you will. It's inventor may have been altruistic (or not) in his motives but ultimately it meant: more efficiency- less workforce. Today's machines crave such leanness so programmers of today get hired to automate 'overhead' jobs away. Long term, the trend may prove either good or bad, the point is, such machines do not care. Much like in Buster's era.

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