Story # 1: Ray Bradbury - Marionettes, Inc.

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author.   Best known for his dystopian   novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American genre writers. 

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dystopia: a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.

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"Marionettes, Inc.", is a short story by Ray Bradbury from his collection of short stories, The Illustrated Man. It was originally published in Startling Stories (March, 1949). In the story, Bradbury conjures a conflict between man and machine and depicts the human dependence on technology, a common theme for Bradbury's stories. The characters are Braling and Smith and their annoying wives.

The common thread in these stories is deception.
What about deception in Marionettes, Inc? 
Did it lead to an unexpected complication? Which?