Have you looked at a washing machine recently?

We’ll need a new one when we move countries, and the last one we bought was maybe in 2013 in Australia. So, at the weekend I spent an hour tentatively dipping my toe into the shopping pool to see how warm the water is, and

HOLY MOLY!

You can buy washing machines with AI now!

I was so excited. Imagine. A washing machine that’ll wander around the house picking up washing, sorting it into piles, washing it and hanging it up for us!

But when I read the description, I discovered that’s not what the AI feature does. It’s even better:

It gives you an app!

With real-time notifications on whether or not your wash cycle is done.

Wow.

How did I ever live without that?

And there’s more.

If there’s a fault, the app may help you troubleshoot the problem with no need to call a technician.

Although if not, you’ll probably need a technician and an IT specialist to fix the fault.

Mega-Wow!

At what point did technology stop being at all useful?

I’d like to know what you think, but I’ll start us off by saying sometime after 1933 and before, say, 2013?

1933 because that was the year King Kong came out, and when they were making it, everybody said, stick a man in a monkey suit. It’ll be fine. But producers Cooper & Schoedsack stood firm and went for stop-motion and all sorts of other cutting-edge tricks.

It’s why the film still ranks as one of the best ever made.

And while everyone knows what happened to Kong, few people remember the tragic events that led to the death of my great-great-great-grandfather, Mincer Delaney, on the night of the premiere.

If you haven’t seen it yet, then click here, where I – like Mincer – reveal all!

Chat soon,

Morgan

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