If only Robert Adler knew when he was spending all those late nights perfecting his invention...

How it would grow from something incredibly simple to a grotesque monstrosity...

How many battles would be fought to control it...

How many families it would tear apart...

How it would pit brother against sister, husband against wife...

How it would make humankind lazier and more obese...

How people would become so dependent on it...

How people wouldn't be able to imagine their life without it...

If only Robert Adler knew all those things, maybe he would have kept the remote control on the drawing board.