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> With speech interfaces and internet of things gadgets, we're moving closer to building ourselves a demon-haunted world.

I call it the daemon-haunted world.

(The reference is to Sagan's book "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark".)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)




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