Though a failure on the privacy front, this video is amusing to watch.

Does anything strike you as odd about the movements of the curtain? Probably not, because we’re all habituated to computer-based automation and its limitations. But if it were controlled by a human, it would act quite different, anticipating the movements of the people outside to block them much more intelligently. There’s no technical reason that computers couldn’t deal with the world in the same way, we just don’t have the software to do it yet. Or, sadly, the understanding needed to create it.