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funny the way that Amazon did a whole bunch of work with voice recognition and synthesis, building a software ecosystem, manufacturing a whole product line, all to get people to shop using their Alexas. and then people pretty much just use it as a kitchen timer & to play Spotify.Look on archive.org
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poll: I own an Alexa, and IPermalink Look on archive.org
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I can just imagine the 6 pager that kicked off the project. it's gonna be in your kitchen! you'll talk to it constantly! you'll trust it! so when you run out of milk, what could be more natural than asking it to order some more?!Permalink Look on archive.org
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some kind of random growth spurt thrown out by the tech monopolies, blooming into millions of protrusions of plastic & circuitboard, on the slow trajectory towards sunsettingPermalink Look on archive.org