I think Alexa is lame. I’m just saying, for me, it’s a” no thank you.”
Having a squawk box in every room (or even 1) sounds undesirable to me. Talking to an inanimate object would make me feel silly. Her creepy voice answering me and then lights turning on or the television channels changing or whatever else Alexa does, would give me anxiety.
Hearing that Alexa had been eavesdropping on the people she’d been purchased to serve, didn’t bring my comfort level up. And when the inter-webs reported that small children had been able to orders hundreds of dollars worth of wish list items that began showing up at their unaware parent’s front door, I thought, oh hell no.
No Judy Judgerson here. Obviously if Amazon’s sold 100 million Alexa devices, they’re appealing to the masses. But I wonder if the ratio of human to human contact vs human to cloud-based voice service would become equal, or worse, less.
Maybe just because we can integrate more technology doesn’t mean we should. Just my 2 cents and I’ve gone on a quarter’s worth. Your turn. What do you think? More technology or less?