A 1972 feminist essay 'I Want a Wife' doubles as the perfect personal AI product roadmap
mickeyxfriedman · x · 2026-10-23
Sharing Judy Brady's vintage 1970s essay 'I Want a Wife,' in which a tired housewife itemizes everything a 'wife' would handle: childcare and appointments, cooking and shopping, laundry, hosting guests, even knowing when her husband needs a night out. The poster's take: it inadvertently reads as one of the best product roadmaps for personal AI assistants and home robotics — an unusually concrete spec of the tedious tasks people want offloaded.
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