Here is what I think about the fact that everything is a computer now: Not everything needs to be a computer. Most things should not be computers, in fact. We should avoid having things be computers wherever possible. Things being computers should be reserved for cases where a computer is necessary. I'm okay with a car being a computer. Being able to read environmental conditions from sensors and run calculations to make sure everything runs smoothly and detect if anything is wrong is very useful for a car. But on the other hand, many things in a car should not be a computer. The door handle should not be a touch button. The center display should be a computer, obviously, but a particular kind (not a giant tablet; it should be designed in a way that respects its role as a control interface that should provide as little distraction from the driver's simultaneous task of operating the machine as possible). On the other other hand, a rice cooker should never be a computer. Every rice cooker that uses electronics to run a clock is a worse rice cooker that un-solves a solved problem. As @TechConnectify@mas.to goes over in his excellent video on the subject [1], one-button rice cookers cleverly take advantage of the laws of physics by using a switch made with an alloy with a Curie temperature slightly above the boiling point of water. Once there is no more water to boil in the rice cooker, the temperature rises past the boiling point of water, which causes the magnet to de-magnetize, opening the switch and stopping the cooking. It does not need a timer to know when to stop cooking because it is designed in such a way that it will stop cooking right when it needs to, because one of the things that indicates that the rice is done cooking will cause it to stop cooking the rice. No computer is necessary here. [1] Alec Watson, "Old-Fashioned Rice Cookers Are Extremely Clever", 15 January 2020, Technology Connections, YouTube video, 11:11.