A 1972 essay 'I Want a Wife' turns out to be a surprisingly good roadmap for AI assistants and home robots
mickeyxfriedman · x · 2026-10-23
The author points to Judy Brady's vintage 1970s essay 'I Want a Wife' — a tired housewife cataloging the tedious tasks she'd offload to a wife — and argues it reads as one of the best product roadmaps for personal AI assistants and home robotics: the essay's itemized list of care, chores, and scheduling needs maps almost directly to what these products should do.
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