dumb computers and smart toilets

"I am living in a world of dumb computers and smart toilets", wrote Leonard Sweet in "Soul Tsunami", a book on faith in the postmodern technological culture. He wrote this after having problem shutting down his computer for landing at an airport. As he entered the airport's restroom, he observed the smart toilet in action: "As soon as I enterd that men's room, a toilet starts to have a relationship with me. It knows I exist. It responds to my presence. It knows what to do and when to do it. And that brief encounter with that toilet was of such caliber that when I turn my back on it to walk aaway, it weeps." [p.86]