You’ve all seen it. You know, the classic Disney Channel Movie starring Ryan Merriman and the girl from the Au Pair trilogy. No, not Luck of the Irish. No, not The Thirteenth Year. I’m talking about Smart House, the best movie of all time featuring the line, “Hey Pat, how about activating some kick butt video screens?”

Ben Cooper, a 13 year-old struggling to balance school and home, enters a contest to win a Smart House, and the rest is history. The Smart House (named Pat) can make smoothies, play music videos on command, take out the trash, and even transform a home office into a virtual golf course.

In 1999, the idea of a Smart House was entertaining, but seemed grossly out of reach. Who knew when we would ever be able to achieve such an extreme level of laziness without a green screen and special effects?

Well, my friends, the time has come. Maximum laziness is at your IRL doorstep, and its name is Amazon Echo.

Amazon has introduced Echo smart speaker, a product that takes the Internet of Things to a somewhat scary, mostly awesome level. While the cylindrical device with seven microphones on top was originally introduced in November 2014, Amazon just announced new functionalities.

According to Amazon’s press release, “You can now use Echo to switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, turn on the fan or heater while reading in your favorite chair, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie — all without lifting a finger… or even raising your voice.”

Woah. That’s pretty cool.

TechCrunch reports, “Echo will [initially] support WeMo’s Switch, Insight Switch, and Light Switch and Hue’s A19, Lux, BR30, Bloom, and LightStrip lights.”

Can it be? Is Smart House an actual thing now? Has technology finally caught up to the plot-line of a pre-Y2K Disney Channel movie?

Yes. Yes it has. Amazon Echo can also play music on command, answer questions, relay the news and weather, and create to-do lists. Want to play Taylor Swift? “Alexa, play Taylor Swift,” is all you have to say. Want to silence your !@#$%^& alarm without lifting a finger? Just say, “Alexa, turn my alarm off.”

Watch the original promotional video released in November to see these examples and more in action:

Who knew technology could be so smart and funny?

Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Smart House wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows and butterflies. Pat wasn’t everything she was cracked up to be, and, in the end, the Cooper family learned that humans will always be better than technology.

Will Amazon Echo have the same fate? Will Alexa turn out to be a Pat, locking families in their homes and resenting their insurmountable laziness? Have we created an uncontrollable technology monster? Should we *gasp* get out of bed and turn off the light ourselves?

Maybe. But, for now, we’ll let Alexa give it a go.