By the 2030s, ordinary families assemble personal agent operating systems that quietly run calendars, purchases, care work, and daily judgment according to their own rules.
Once personal automation stops being tied to a single platform, families begin treating their agent stack like a domestic utility. Parents build negotiation rules for screen time, freelancers route invoices through custom review chains, and retirees automate medication reminders around their own habits. Life becomes smoother, but households also inherit a new burden: maintaining the logic that now shapes their relationships, finances, and attention.
At 7:10 a.m. in Busan, a father stands in a small kitchen while his apartment wall display asks whether to delay his daughter's tutoring session because rain has slowed the school bus network. He glances at the explanation trace, overrides one rule, and watches three other errands quietly rearrange themselves.
The promise of control can conceal a subtler dependence. Families with time, literacy, and money build graceful systems, while others inherit brittle templates they do not fully understand. Domestic autonomy grows, but so does domestic inequality.