Amazon Echo Teardown

[Ducman69]

If it's not being done to you, then it's entertainment! /sigh

Not going to lie, I have the biggest shit eating grin ever when I see some retard get busted for robbing a store or something and popo is there to taze the crap out of em and they land hard on their heads right on the concrete.

I don't believe in karma, but I do believe in 50,000 volts!

 

[BigJayDogg3]

Why would there be wide-spread panic?
Everyone is completely pacified by these devices.

You want to see wide-spread panic?
Take down their cell service and Internet service for a few weeks.

I don't think that would have affected the older generations 10-20+ years ago.
Primarily because they had no choice but to grow up and be men and women, and not act like eternal high schoolers who's only focus is how many selfies "they just had" to take of themselves in a day.

What you're talking about has less to do with technology and a lot more to do with parents treating their children as precious little snowflakes that can do no wrong. Overly coddled children grow into self-centered asses. There's nothing new there. What is new is in the past you stood a chance of passers-by overlooking it. Those people have been given a platform and can now broadcast their idiocy to a wide audience at 4G LTE speeds.

I'm going to agree with the other guy. You're complaining about society getting dumber and dumber while we are looking at some of the most amazing technological developments we've ever seen. We are living in science fiction land where you can talk to a device and it talks back. You have a wealth of information literally everywhere you are. You can call someone in China while fishing in the middle of a lake. These are things that didn't exist for a common person 20 years ago, and for anyone 30-40 years ago.

Individuals then may have been more able to provide for themselves (I seriously doubt it, but whatever), but look at how back breaking it was. I can perform weeks worth of their work in minutes. With the time I save, I can go learn to do some other, more useful things.

 

[Kueller]

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?

Smartphones were the tipping point. It went from a house or work terminal to walking/driving around like a brainless meatbag.

 

[MrCaffeineX]

Individuals then may have been more able to provide for themselves (I seriously doubt it, but whatever), but look at how back breaking it was. I can perform weeks worth of their work in minutes. With the time I save, I can go learn to do some other, more useful things.

The problem is that for too many people today that last sentence reads more like this: "With the time I save, I can go watch reality TV, or some other, more useless things."

 

[lilbabycat]

Individuals then may have been more able to provide for themselves (I seriously doubt it, but whatever), but look at how back breaking it was. I can perform weeks worth of their work in minutes. With the time I save, I can go learn to do some other, more useful things.

I think many people are at odds with the level of specialization that exists in the workplace/society. The majority of the population, when pulled outside their bubble, are helpless. Instead of "hmm how does this work, lets see" its now "This is broke, call someone who can fix it" or "this is broken, time to buy a new one".

Down the road I imagine that everything will be so connected and redundant that not having the internet available to you will be so rare that it'll be assumed at all times. Children won't learn to remember, they will learn how to query. That question will be whether people will be able to develop their critical thinking and pattern recognition skills to go properly use the data available to them. As it stands now, I don't see this in the average person. You can throw two very clear sets of data at them (and inferring a correlation should be easy), but all they see are two separate entities, unable to get the connection.

Before that time happens, we're going to have a very dysfunctional society, imo.

 

[thedocta45]

Look at everyone sub-40 years old.
No one knows anything about politics, religion, history, family, etc.

Everyone born in the 1980s especially, are nothing but a bunch of self-absorbed, self-centered people; these aren't teenagers I'm talking about, they are all in their 20s and 30s now, yet they act like kids.

Don't believe me still?
Here's a small example:

And apparently everyone over 40 doesn't understand the fallacy of omniscience.

Also,

Hey you kids get off my lawn, and back in my day up hill in the snow both ways with no shoes!