home smart home out of milk -

Energy-monitoring and smart technologies have set up shop in the home, transforming machines for living into veritable living things - with all the bells, whistles, frills, and failures.

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"The emotional aspect of home automation is its greatest remaining
obstacle: Home Sweet Home is still easier on the nerves 
than Home
Omniscient Home. But I’m in it for the long haul and am hoping that
perhaps the funds we’re saving now on our energy bills will someday
finance automated laundry and vacuuming. Now that would be really smart."

Interesting article written by the wife on an executive of a home automation manufacturer (Elan Home Systems) who has to live the the technology that her husband sells.