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Smart Homes & Optimization Thermostats, sensors, and the hearth. When optimizing the home quietly reshapes the life inside it.
2 episodes also called smart-home , optimization
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Privacy & Security 8 Media Ecology 40 Cars 5 Techno-Idolatry 21 Environmental Stewardship 4 Key ideas
01 Optimization has a telos, ask what it optimizes you toward.
02 The hearth is communal before it is efficient.
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EP 5 Jul 6, 2022
Does Optimizing Your Home Make Life Worse? Smart thermostats and sensors promise a frictionless home, but what is all that optimization forming us toward? A conversation about the hearth, convenience, and love.
#Smart Homes #thermostats #Alastair Roberts #Neil Postman
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