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iFixit has posted a teardown of the Amazon Echo this afternoon. What's the verdict? Like most things, it's easy to take a part but hard to put back together.
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This is the first I've heard of this device
Amazon has an awkward and creepy video video introducing it.
You can all laugh at this, but we'll see where society and humanity is at 20 years from now.
I'm not envisioning a pretty sight.
I literally just watched humanity's downfall in that video.
I truly imagined the humanity would end in war, pestilence, fire, etc.
I never could have foreseen that it would have ended due to instant gratification.
That said, I remember all of the unique passwords (or their patterns, anyway) I've set for every site I use, as well as all of my work's logins and passwords, so I'm not all empty up here.
I should add, that if you don't believe me on this, just look at how much everyone's intelligence and wisdom have fallen since smartphones and tablets arrived.
Ask yourselves, are things really better with these devices now?
I truly imagined the humanity would end in war, pestilence, fire, etc.
I never could have foreseen that it would have ended due to instant gratification.
I've seen people who use the "remember password" function for their web browsers and apps, and they can't remember any of them ever.
We keep getting closer and closer to realizing Idiocracy as the prophetic work it was written as.
At first, I thought it was just a comedy, but now I see Mike Judge as the modern day Nostradamus he is.
TWIT has biases. One particular one is against Amazon straying from a kindle ebook, audio book, or merchandise retailer into Google-like services territory. Or anyone that competes with Google's services for that matter.The Echo was discussed during the November 9, 2014 TWiT, which was the first AND last time I heard anything about it.. so unimpressed I was with it that I had completely forgotten about it's existence.
I literally just watched humanity's downfall in that video.
People's minds are a muscle, you either use it or lose it.
When one's mind is trained to remember things, such as day to day things, as shown in the video, the mind becomes stronger.
When one's mind is trained to only ask things, be given the answer on the spot, and then move on, the mind will turn to jelly as one's brain will become accustomed to only asking a question with an instant answer.
It's like using a calculator for very basic math, like 12x12 or 10/5 or 55-14.
If you use a calculator constantly with these operations, then one day, you have to do it in your head, you might find it to be very difficult.
Rather, if you had always done these math problems in your head, then it would be on-the-spot thinking, thus your mind is trained to be stronger in that instance.
Now, just imagine this thing being in your household for, say, five years.
Your kids use it, your spouse uses it, everyone uses it for just about everything.
Then one day, the device breaks, the service for it is shut down, the power goes out, etc; essentially, this device is offline.
Now, what does everyone do when they have to think of even the most basic of day to day tasks...?
You can all laugh at this, but we'll see where society and humanity is at 20 years from now.
I'm not envisioning a pretty sight.
I should add, that if you don't believe me on this, just look at how much everyone's intelligence and wisdom have fallen since smartphones and tablets arrived.
Ask yourselves, are things really better with these devices now?
I truly imagined the humanity would end in war, pestilence, fire, etc.
I never could have foreseen that it would have ended due to instant gratification.
Also, when anyone else watches the Amazon Echo video (the one that Amazon put out to promote it), does anyone else feel insulted? Surely Amazon doesn't think we're all this moronic?
I mean SERIOUSLY? Who doesn't know what the fuck day it is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOCeAtKHIc
I think you should probably read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism."
The right side is the USA, the left side is the rest of the world.
I disagree. Here in the US we have both. The pleasure system is mandatory, if you step out of it, we have the pain system to ensure that everyone else sees what happens when you step out of it. Also, the pleasure system involves watching live video of the pain system.
If it's not being done to you, then it's entertainment! /sigh
Also, when anyone else watches the Amazon Echo video (the one that Amazon put out to promote it), does anyone else feel insulted? Surely Amazon doesn't think we're all this moronic?
I mean SERIOUSLY? Who doesn't know what the fuck day it is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOCeAtKHIc
Good posts. All of them.
I love it when people whine about how stupid humanity is becoming, all thanks to the use of the most technologically advanced developments mankind has ever seen. I guess we'll all be really dumb with our flying cars and interstellar space travel hundreds of years from now.
Just curious where you all think the perfect balance of technology and man was. In the 1980s? Earlier? Is using dictionaries and encyclopedias really all that much more efficient than verbal ask and response, when you consider the time spent to perform such tasks?
I agree we should always be careful not to depend on technology too much, but when has it failed so hard that we are running around like headless chickens?
Oh, and of course there are always headless chickens running around, regardless of technology... I'm talking wide-spread panic across a majority of the population.
I get that you think people are stupid, just curious if you could elaborate and answer my questions.
It is Google Now except in one room in your home instead of on your body 24/7.JC guys. It's no different than your fucking smart phones
So many ways except answering my questions directly...I already have, in so many ways.
Just curious where you all think the perfect balance of technology and man was. In the 1980s? Earlier? Is using dictionaries and encyclopedias really all that much more efficient than verbal ask and response, when you consider the time spent to perform such tasks?
I agree we should always be careful not to depend on technology too much, but when has it failed so hard that we are running around like headless chickens?
It is Google Now except in one room in your home instead of on your body 24/7.
Nobody cried about the downfall of humanity when Google snuck Google Now into most phones. although it is optional, for now.