The Upgrade
You Shouldn’t Fear Amazon’s Alexa
Why paranoia about digital voice assistants is overblown
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6 min readMay 23, 2019
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Star Trek vs. George Orwell’s 1984. No two cultural touchstones better illustrate our diametrically opposed feelings about voice systems.
Star Trek’s always listening, ever-helpful Computer represents the highest ideal of a digital assistant…