Smart home devices claim a limitless scope of domestic activities for rendition

Evidence

Google’s Assistant arrived already integrated into Google’s new messaging app, Allo, where it can search for information, execute tasks, or even compose routine messages on your behalf. Most importantly, Assistant animates the firm’s home device, Google Home. The idea is that in time, the device (or its successor) will claim for rendition a theoretically limitless scope of animate and inanimate domestic activities: conversations, lightbulbs, queries, schedules, movement, travel planning, heating systems, purchases, home security, health concerns, music, communication functions, and more. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 814

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘theoretically limitless scope’ of domestic rendition connects to the smart-home section of my trees-as-infrastructure piece and to broader surveillance-capital framing of the home as extraction site. — connects to: Home-device privacy policies extract biometric and audio data from entire households — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 741; Smart-home device spending is exploding alongside surveillance capability — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 749; Smart-home IoT devices enroll consumers in surveillance-based markets without knowledge or consent — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 751 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Smart-home devices now create immense knowledge stores with unowned power #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 31