Home Automation: The Next Standard

Home automation systems are the next big thing, and the technology industry shows no signs of slowing down. Though some systems can be quite an investment, it's one worth taking as it pays for itself.

Investing in Smart Technology

Whether in terms of costs, safety, or simply peace of mind, homeowners should make a conscious effort to invest in smart technology, especially as home professionals get on board.

Freedom Heating and Air is just one company that believes in home automation benefits, and it's a safe assumption that this technology will soon be a standard.

4 Home Automation Quotes for Inspiration

“You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative.”

– Walter Lippmann

“As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.”

– Ernst Fischer

“Automation is cost cutting by tightening the corners and not cutting them.”

– Haresh Sippy

“Automation may be a good thing, but don’t forget that it began with Frankenstein.”

– Anonymous

Technology Quotes to Keep You Thinking

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

– Mark Kennedy (Author)

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.  No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

– Elbert Hubbard (Author)

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

– Sydney Harris (Journalist)

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. – Omar Bradley (General, US Army)

“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.”

– Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft.

“These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?”

– Rebecca McNutt, Author

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

– DOUGLAS ADAMS, The Salmon of Doubt

More Technology Quotes

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

– Jonathan Sacks

“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.”

– Steve Jobs

“Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.”

– Jacques Ellul