That anybody believed the media's claim that refrigerators had computers in them in the 1990s seems like a case of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect[0]. Smart refrigerators didn't even exist until LG released one in June 2000 that was a commercial failure[1].
I remember the news telling us that all sorts of unexpected devices had computers in them these days and computer=Y2K bug risk. Microwaves certainly did so fridges would be an easy leap to make.
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That anybody believed the media's claim that refrigerators had computers in them in the 1990s seems like a case of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect[0]. Smart refrigerators didn't even exist until LG released one in June 2000 that was a commercial failure[1].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_refrigerator#History
I remember the news telling us that all sorts of unexpected devices had computers in them these days and computer=Y2K bug risk. Microwaves certainly did so fridges would be an easy leap to make.