We hate our remotes. Every electronic media device comes with its own remote. We lose them and can't control our stuff without them. They break. We confuse them with each other. It's too hard to do simple things. It's way too hard to do hard things.

We ask too much of them. The batteries die, and they all take different batteries. They're uncomfortable. They're unresponsive. What we do with our hands doesn't match what's happening on the screen. And the software that's on the devices that are controlled by the remote is