Life Automation: Life Automation holds two slightly different meaning. First, it serves as an umbrella term that refers to the myriad of twenty-first-century personal solutions (e.g., outsourcing, crowdsourcing, household robots, personalized web services, and so on) that enable us to make our lives significantly more efficient, effective, productive, simplified, rewarding, and stress-free. (Life Automation = modern solutions for streamlining and improving our lives.) Second, it connotes an ideal state of being where we spend “99.9%” of our time, energy, and money on only those things that add value to our lives. Anything that doesn’t is automatically (or semi-automatically) taken care of for us — by someone else or by some technological means — freeing us to live, work, and pursue happiness as we see fit. (Life Automation = a life goal worth pursuing.)