I want these sort of devices in my life but I don't want them connected to some unknowable blackbox. I remember growing up and reading all of these breathless

I want these sort of devices in my life but I don't want them connected to some unknowable blackbox. I remember growing up and reading all of these breathless futuristic magazine articles, books or interviews that featured what technology might be like in the future (the future is now). Those dreamed of devices do a lot of what today's actual devices do. The difference is that the hypothetical devices were built and sold to service the consumer and not act as a vehicle to gather data for whatever unknown purposes the manufacture is really interested in. I think about the movie "Her" where the AI is purchased and installed onto an owned device and seemingly works only on behalf of the person that installed it and not who built it. Until we get to that sort of mind set (if ever) i will sadly have to opt-out of using these cool inventions.