Tag: sovereign technology

  • I Don’t Want a Smart Home. I Want a Sovereign One.

    I Don’t Want a Smart Home. I Want a Sovereign One.

    Every piece I’ve written about home agents has a question sitting underneath it I kept not answering: who does the agent actually work for? Not in theory. In practice, when it’s making decisions at 2am and you’re asleep — whose interests is it optimizing for?

  • What Happens to Trust When an AI Books My Plumber?

    What Happens to Trust When an AI Books My Plumber?

    The agent booked a contractor. You didn’t pick them, talk to them, or get a gut feeling. Do you feel okay about that? The trust gap between what agentic commerce can do and what people will hand over is the most interesting design problem nobody’s solving.