Cosmopolitan India

THE ROBOTIC WARS

Every morning for the past few weeks, I have woken up sweating. I’ve woken up sweating because the heater next to my bed has been on for about an hour, turning the room into a kind of DIY hot-yoga studio.

The reason I have carried on waking up sweating is that I am too scared to go near and upset the balance of our app-controlled heating system, which is more sensitive than the proverbial snowflake. I can’t work out how to change it without plunging the whole flat into microclimatic chaos. What if I somehow offend the app? What if the app turns against us?

At first we

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