There have always been such concerns around cybersecurity, he notes, but it's the mass consumer nature of IoT that implies they may now become the reality of people's everyday lives "instead of plot devices in Hollywood thrillers".
Like Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror series, it is particularly good at placing absorbing sci-fi plots in everyday domestic scenarios, which certainly widens its appeal.
Even by Iraq's violent standards in recent years — in which mammoth explosions have become a possibility of everyday life in Baghdad — the plot discovered by the Iraqi government on Tuesday would have been devastating if carried out.
So much that happens in this book is wildly improbable — we encounter at various points a massive hurricane, a nuclear reactor built in a backyard, and a crafty pedophile — but un-fantastical, deadpan prose grounds even the zaniest plot elements in everyday realism.
[ image: /photos/590953af2179605b11ad3ab5]So much that happens in this book is wildly improbable — we encounter at various points a massive hurricane, a nuclear reactor built in a backyard, and a crafty pedophile — but un-fantastical, deadpan prose grounds even the zaniest plot elements in everyday realism.
Relentlessly cheery J-pop music and ubiquitous cellphones inject notes of everyday Japanese reality into an absurdist plot in which even death is a matter of little import.
Liberated by the seaside, she has affairs with lifeguard Juan and Ingrid, a hippyish drifter, then flits off to visit her estranged father in Athens, declaring her antipathy to the narratives of everyday life ("I am anti major plots").
In that film, his far less successful Southland Tales and now The Box, Kelly creates mind-twisting tales in which everyday conundrums unravel into conspiracies and plots of cosmic proportions.
The plot is the stuff of everyday life: financial worries, relatives' visits, a timid suitor, a rapid passage of time.
At the time, the four linked words slowly became a pejorative, connoting an underwhelming slice-of-life vignette concerned less with plot than with lapidary observations of everyday (read "bland") routine.
