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"revolutionary products like kindle or alexa" <-- This sounds like paid ads to me. The end of the article is also odd and brings up taxes for some reason: > .
by lettergram 5y ago
"revolutionary products like kindle or alexa" <-- This sounds like paid ads to me.
The end of the article is also odd and brings up taxes for some reason:
> ... There will be an assistant in each house, perhaps hanging on the wall or moving on the floor, and through it financial transactions will be carried out, we will control the lights in the house, select the music to be played or carry things from one place to another, he posits. Humanistic technology? Or an iridescent oxymoron?One of the richest men in the world is building prodigious hardware (in competition with Samsung, Apple, Google or LG), but what is his social involvement? Should Bezos pay a 90% tax rate, as the French economist Thomas Piketty argues? “I’m afraid I don’t have a good answer to your question,” notes Zehr. “I’m a successful farm-raised inventor and engineer, and I’m very involved with young people. However, as a species, we have to ask ourselves what world we want to live in.” That, perhaps, is the biggest secret of all.