Exoplanet

Although the Ape like creatures were amusing and mischievious, they were self desructive and so the Scout concluded that they must never be allowed to spread into the Galaxy.

Global Warming

Suddenly the Professor realised that a significant amount of Co2 contributing to Climate Change had been produced by all the Supercomputers working on the problem.

Internet of things.

Old Jake began to believe that his fridge had come to the conclusion that he had shot JFK....and was about to rat him out to the Feds.

Misdirection.

Usually at this time of the evening the M6 was gridlocked. But tonight Google Earth Traffic showed it moving along quite freely.

Bitcoin

Frank was mildly displeased to find that the electricity bill for the mining rig was ten times the amount it produced in coins.

The Robots are here.

The Human crew of Mars One knew from the start that this was a one way trip, but why had  nobody back on Earth bothered to tell the Robonauts?

A Quotation (well sort of.)

          The White Heat of Technological revolution.*

* Harold Wilson.