> With the IoT, I don't know of any such writing. Home automation gizmos, and speculating about them, have been around for a long time. Here's a quote from a n

> With the IoT, I don't know of any such writing. Home automation gizmos, and speculating about them, have been around for a long time. Here's a quote from a newspaper article from 1990 - https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19900913&id=G6ccAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h3oEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4661,3343910&hl=en https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19900913&id=... : "With a bedside remote control you'll be able to operate any electronic equipment in your home without lifting your head from the pillow" Again, I agree with you. I haven't seen much need for such things. Then again, I don't even have a smart phone. Oh! Here's another analogy; IoT is like the home robots of the early 1980s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERO_%28robot%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERO_%28robot%29 .