This was one of the funniest research projects of my life. With two colleagues, I got a funding to study “proactive information technology” at home. This notion of David Tannenbaum’s, we thought, was hilarious, and at odds with what the home is about, so we took a critical, constructivist stand on this notion, built various proactive devices, and put them to use in several homes in Helsinki and Tampere, Finland’s second city. The later phases of the study are reported better in a few articles (see “Papers” on this site), but this gives a fresh perspective on the first year of the study.