Topic

Smart Home

10 articles

The Refrigerator Has Become a Border Control

Smart fridges and tracking apps now inspect every item entering the kitchen and ask it to justify its stay.

Oct 1 · 6 min read

Interval readings and appliance disaggregation turned the electricity meter from a monthly counter into a continuous examiner of the home.

Sep 30 · 6 min read

The cleaning was always the pretext; the real deliverable is a labelled floor plan of your home, and it leaves the building every time the app syncs.

Sep 26 · 7 min read

Smart panels now decide which circuits survive an outage. The quietest object in the house has acquired judgment: and a list.

Sep 23 · 7 min read

Access used to be an object you could hold. It is now a timed session, granted, logged and revoked by someone else's server.

Sep 21 · 6 min read

Sold as a convenience for missing parcels, the video doorbell now functions as an unpaid, ever-present witness with a subpoena address.

Sep 19 · 7 min read

Smart tariffs turned the household heating controller into an autonomous market participant: one with no idea what markets are.

Sep 16 · 7 min read

The video doorbell promised convenience but has quietly turned the front step into a privately operated public-record system.

Aug 14 · 9 min read

The smart home promised convenience. It delivered a new category of planned obsolescence that runs on Wi-Fi.

Jul 26 · 8 min read

Connected homes promised convenience, but quietly moved upkeep, troubleshooting, and risk onto the people living inside them.

Jun 21 · 10 min read

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