Smart

Smart phone.
Smart speaker.
Smart whatever.

“Smart" has become synonymous with technological developments.
More narrowly, “smart” is an adjective attached to everyday items that have been overhauled by tech so they can handle more and more of our daily tasks.

So a smart refrigerator can alarm our smart phone when our milk is low or we need more eggs from the grocery store.

But smart is not the same thing as high tech.

Smart ought to be reserved to name the advancements that actually solve a problem. Sometimes those solutions are tech advancements, but often times they aren’t.

Sometimes they are design advancements: changing the color, the shape, the weight, the appearance of a thing. Sometimes they are functional changes: how we use, interact, engage with a thing.

Sometimes smart is low tech.

Sometimes smart is no tech.