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Patient's living-room lights now require a four-step voice command. A guest tried to turn them on via the wall switch. The wall switch does nothing; it has been bypassed. The routine was, originally, installed to make life 'easier.' It now takes 47 seconds, routinely, to establish basic lighting. Patient knows this. Patient is shopping for more smart devices.
Chronic. The system's complexity outpaces its utility quarterly.
None. Dismantling it would require admitting the wall switch was, apparently, the correct technology.
Patients with Severe Smart-Home Over-Automation typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Severe Smart-Home Over-Automation present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Domus automata incontinenta, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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