“Here’s another nightmare
scenario: the ‘Internet of Things’ has all your music linked from a server in the
basement to a single upstairs remote control that connects to the
home-entertainment unit. Suddenly your audio system won't play anything but Il
Divo. U2 is gone. Sinatra is gone. Brad Paisley is gone—and he took Miranda
Lambert with him! Even the original-cast soundtrack from ‘Mamma Mia’ is gone. It's
Il Divo, Il Divo, Il Divo, 24 hours a day. And you don't even own any Il Divo
recordings.” — Humor columnist Joe Queenan, “Moving Targets: When the ‘Internet
of Things’ Attacks,”
The Wall Street
Journal, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 2014
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