Kate Emery: When even WiFi is a rotten snitch, it’s time man fights back

Millennials grew up being warned that technology was not always a friend to humans.

The Terminator film franchise made such a cultural impact in part because it tapped into fears that the computers creeping into our homes might be changing our lives in ways we did not entirely understand.

At a time when a generation was told that standing in front of the microwave would give us cancer, sitting too close to the TV would ruin our eyes and playing Minesweeper would melt our brains, it seemed entirely plausible that the future would be man v machine.

Four decades later, 2025 is sticking to the unofficial rules of every good sequel — More villains! Higher stakes! — so that tech is no longer simply going to give us cancer every time we want to eat cheese on toast. Instead, as millennials musc