The Last Quiet Thing

>Sometime in the last twenty years, our possessions came alive. Not all at once. Not dramatically. One by one (...) Your thermostat has opinions now. Your television requires a login. Your car updates itself overnight (...) Your phone is not a slot machine. It's a to-do list that writes itself. (...)

I don't know if those attention-demanding devices or reading such AI slop is more tiresome...