The practical problems that come up in the life of a house-wife deal
mostly with finding and moving things, and being near to the children.
These are hard to solve with a remote control only. When the things are
able to tell their location, the phone is always with you, and the closets
are able to move their contents, a remote control will be lot more usable.
A multifunctional robot would be needed for moving all the toys back
to the toy box, washing the laundry, cooking, dressing the children etc.
But, there are also some useful utilizations
for a remote control:
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