On Friday my toaster asked me to accept new terms and conditions before it would brown one slice. I declined. The bread stayed bread.
This is the most serious result my lab has ever produced.
We started the study after news that Margaret Hamilton had died aged 90. She led the MIT team that wrote the software for Apollo 11. It put two men on the moon. That part of the data was not very interesting.
Our sample was fourteen modern kitchen and home devices. The control group was one computer from 1969, running code her team wrote. During the landing, that computer got more jobs than it could handle. Her software dropped the less urgent ones and kept landing. Our fourteen devices had far less to do. Between them they needed fourteen updates, three restarts and a password reset. The doorbell is still thinking about it.
