Yeah. It just seems like most of those things could be done with ever-so-slightly more effort without this technology. Most new consumer technologies that end

Yeah. It just seems like most of those things could be done with ever-so-slightly more effort without this technology. Most new consumer technologies that end up in every home fundamentally change people's lives. I just don't see that happening here. We talk about these companies destroying privacy, gaining power on the scale of nation-states, etc. And we put up with them on some things, because smartphones and social media are really useful and can be really important to living modern life. But I just don't get it with the assistants (and really, Amazon shopping too). We're giving up so much as a society for such a tiny modicum of extra convenience.