


Oddly, only 8,411 people enter the contest, and according to Ben, who’s been stuffing the digital ballot box, roughly a quarter of the entries are his. Ben, who likes computers almost as much as he likes sabotaging his dad’s love life to prevent any woman from taking his mom’s place, enters a contest to win the eponymous smart house, hoping that Nick won’t need a spouse if he has the house. Smart House stars the Coopers: widower dad Nick (Kevin Kilner) and his two kids, Ben (Ryan Merriman) and Angie (Katie Volding). At times envy-inducing and at other times terrifying, PAT was the perfect prelude to a world in which we’re surrounded by smart technology that routinely toes or tramples on the line between exciting and unnerving.
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According to PAT’s creator, eligible genius Sara Barnes (Jessica Steen), the incorporeal computerized consciousness is capable of doing “just about anything,” an assertion that the 82-minute movie convincingly supports. PAT, played by Katey Sagal, was the artificial intelligence at the center of Smart House, the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie that turns 20 later this month. Long before Alexa, Siri, Cortana, or Google Assistant, there was PAT: Personal Applied Technology.
