The future already happened

I'm really not going to make a regular thing of this, but these fit so well in the "the future already happened" theme that I can't resist: Everyone in Hartford CT was officially dead for the first three years of the 1990s. A database error caused the "d" in Hartford to land in the "status" column, so that whenever a resident of the city was selected for jury duty they would be passed over in favor of someone who was not marked as "deceased". More recently, an NPR story about Amazon's voice-activated home automation device activated many of the devices, causing them to reset home thermostats and play back news summaries. When notified of the issue, NPR broadcast a message to the devices asking them to pledge "lots and lots of money" to their local member stations.