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When smart technology anticipates your needs too well

My smart home keeps learning my patterns and now it adjusts things before I even decide what I want and I feel like I am disappearing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Predictive systems can erode the space for spontaneity and self-determination in daily life.

Ideas that help explain it
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