And that is only the beginning. It is no better in the living room. Go in there and give your home entertainment system a good hard look. The scope for annoyance is huge. But the real danger sits in the study.
Every home has one.
A fifth columnist, worse than any teenager's first credit card, just watching and waiting. I speak, of course, of the home computer. It used to be turned on in the morning with your coffee machine as you checked for messages before you went to work, and turned off last thing at night. But this new connectivity has made your PC obsolete. It sits malignly in the corner of the room gathering dust and quietly sulking.