Smart Houses Are Kinda Tacky
Danny Gonzalez・21 minutes read
The speaker reflects on installing smart light switches and controlling lights with Alexa, expressing a sense of accomplishment. They criticize tacky smart house features showcased on TikTok and question the necessity of elaborate smart home technologies.
Insights
- Criticizes the excessive focus on unnecessary smart house features showcased on TikTok, questioning the practicality and necessity of elaborate smart home technologies.
- Compares futuristic smart home predictions from the past to the modern reality, expressing disdain for unnecessary smart features in appliances and highlighting the potential downsides of living in a fully tech-equipped house when devices malfunction.
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Recent questions
What are the benefits of smart homes?
Automation, security, convenience, and control.
What are some criticisms of smart house features?
Tackiness, impracticality, and unnecessary complexity.
How do smart homes compare to futuristic predictions?
Modern reality differs from past visions.
What are some common smart home products?
Tablets, smart fridges, and lighting systems.
How are smart homes portrayed in popular media?
Showcased as futuristic, with both practical and whimsical elements.
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Summary
00:00
"Exploring Smart Homes: Practicality vs. Excess"
- Installed two smart light switches in the house, a significant achievement for the speaker.
- Can now control living room lights with Alexa, leading to a sense of accomplishment.
- Discovered TikTok recommending videos of elaborate smart houses, leading to a change in perception.
- Acknowledges the practical benefits of smart houses like automation and security features.
- Criticizes TikTok videos for showcasing tacky and unnecessary smart house features.
- Highlights a TikTok video of a woman with a chip implanted in her wrist to unlock her house.
- Mocks the excessive focus on mundane tasks like toasting bread in a smart toaster.
- Questions the practicality and necessity of elaborate smart house features.
- Discusses the impracticality of living in a fully tech-equipped house when devices malfunction.
- Compares futuristic smart home predictions from the past to the reality of modern smart homes.
12:16
"Future of Smart Homes: Whimsical and Dystopian"
- Smart technology like tablets and smart fridges are discussed, with the speaker expressing disdain for unnecessary smart features in appliances like fridges.
- Various accounts on platforms like TikTok promote smart home products, linking to stores where viewers can purchase the items.
- A smart home apartment is showcased, with peculiar solutions to problems like snow indoors and bugs on clothes, including a shoe heater and a mysterious Bluetooth speaker-like device.
- The apartment transitions to cleaning supplies and organizational products, highlighting the contrast between futuristic technology and mundane cleaning tasks.
- The video transitions to a futuristic vision of smart homes, featuring smart mirrors and fridges that make suggestions and rule with an "iron fist."
- The video humorously predicts a future where furniture like tables and chairs follow and command individuals, creating a whimsical yet slightly dystopian outlook.
