I have decided that my future AI Life Manager has a lovely European accent. I don't know exactly which country she is from. Somewhere sophisticated, obviously. She is calm, never frazzled, and apparently wakes up before I do. And someday, perhaps not nearly as far in the future as we think, I imagine beginning my morning something like this: Good morning. I hope you slept well. It looks like it will be a beautiful day. You have a fairly light afternoon, and the weather should

Technology has become one of the hardest-working companions in our lives. My phone navigates me across unfamiliar highways, plays my favorite podcasts, tracks my blood sugar, communicates with my insulin pump, reminds me of appointments, keeps me connected to family, captures photographs I treasure, and somehow still finds time to answer texts, emails, and phone calls. Sometimes I think we expect these little devices to be nearly perfect. The truth is, they aren’t. Like us, t