As the Trashfuturians mapped out this new apex of the AI hype cycle, I found myself thinking of a short story I wrote 15 years ago, satirizing the "Internet of Things" hype we were mired in. It's called "The Brave Little Toaster", and it was published in MIT Tech Review's *TRSF* anthology in 2011:
http://bestsf.net/trsf-the-best-new-science-fiction-technology-review-2011/
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