Cool, you touched a nerve, so many replies! These devices in people’s homes are gathering a wealth of information about them, in return they turn on a coffee maker while people sit on the toilet. Unless I live in some future Ingsoc and don’t have a choice, there will never, ever be a device like an Alexa in my home. OK Google is bad enough.
This cartoon says quite a bit, and not with subtlety. Anyone who responds to it with a Trump rant misses everything it says. Just go eat your breakfast and settle down for a full round of the Sunday talking heads, you’ll get your fill of Trump opinions.
I’ve always thought this Zebo character was an art-fart snob but you know what? He’s nailed Tara as a fraud and he’s given Luann some insight into just how intellectual-sounding and intimidating BS can get tossed around and we don’t question it. Tara will make an excellent urban designer some day.
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