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I've worn Alexa-enabled glasses for two weeks. They're driving me bananas

• snorrah 6y ago
  Take them off.
• cs702 6y ago
  It would be difficult to concoct a more diabolic mechanism for driving people insane than a disembodied voice that is constantly whispering in your ears. The whole experiment reads like the beginning of a Black Mirror episode!
  • bsder 6y ago
    Read "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. http://tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html http://tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
  • james_s_tayler 6y ago
    Hmm like mimicking the auditory hallucinations experienced during an episode of psychosis in schizophrenics?
• tuatoru 6y ago
  > "WashPost," chirped my glasses over my morning coffee to let me know about a news alert. "Outlook," Alexa said minutes later, interrupting a real conversation with an offer to read my latest email. I think this is the problem that Apple is trying to fix with moving its software development platform (Mac) to (A beefed-up version of) the same hardware as the target platform (iPhone/iWatch). Awareness of social context is going to be the next killer app.
  • core-questions 6y ago
    > Awareness of social context is going to be the next killer app. Hahaha, ironic that this is something most developers capable of these kinds of programming can't handle IRL
    • deleted 6y ago
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    • foxyv 6y ago
      I don't know if it's just because of our large corporate company culture, but no one in our developer teams is really socially inept like the usual trope.