The automation wars... One marriage, two tech philosophies (emf2026)

My husband and I have been together for 19 years, since meeting at university. We’re opposites in many ways but have somehow made it work.

He loves salt popcorn, I prefer sweet. He enjoys plays, I love musicals. He’s a technologist; I’m far more analogue and would happily turn a bathroom light on without an app. Yet we now live in a home with more than 200 sensors, automations and connected devices, most of them carefully hidden from me.

This isn’t a talk from experts or influencers, but a conversation between two ordinary people negotiating very different views on technology and how it fits into everyday life.

We’ll share successes, failures, compromises and arguments, exploring what should be automated, when convenience becomes complexity, and whether everything that can be connected should be!

Now with a 20-month-old daughter, we’re also navigating screens, privacy, independence and her relationship with technology. Come and join the chat! We could use a referee.

Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/204-the-automation-wars-one-marriage-two-tech-philosophies