I don't think cloud service linked smart speakers are a wise idea, but I visited a family (before COVID, when you could still visit a family) that was making tr

I don't think cloud service linked smart speakers are a wise idea, but I visited a family (before COVID, when you could still visit a family) that was making tremendous use of it: playing music, setting alarms, looking up recipes, ordering stuff from Amazon, and I think looking up reference material and doing arithmetic. Three generations of family members had all clearly made it a nearly unconscious habit. So I don't think this technology can be dismissed as useless to everyone.