We were also told that smart home will make our life easier and save time to have more available for the "important" things in life. But reality is that people just spend more time with their smart home things and are even shouting at their computers even though the computers just do what they were told...
Automated factories were supposed to deliver us from work, yet we work as much if not more than before for a lesser part of the profit cake.
We can't keep falling for the capitalist trick over and over...