Smart speakers

[Sir Velo]

FF you need to change your cookie settings and update your marketing preferences!

[kernelbogey]

FF you need to change your cookie settings and update your marketing preferences!

That won't help when buying a bottle of wine, though!

[oddoneout]

That won't help when buying a bottle of wine, though!

Do you reckon the proposed national ID scheme would remove the need to ask someone the same age as your grandchildren for permission to buy the annual bottle of sherry?

[french frank]

FF you need to change your cookie settings and update your marketing preferences!

Confession time: I couldn't work out how to send a STOP message to a 4-digit number. Emails I don't want to read just get deleted at once. Not that many of them.

[Ein Heldenleben]

I don’t like the idea of Alexa “accidentally “ eavesdropping so I never use it but it’s on at least two of the devices I have . The Apple Siri is too useless to worry about.

[teamsaint]

And elsewhere, I've just received an email from Tesco:

"We noticed you bought red grapes this week [this morning actually]. Nice! Just in case you're wondering what to do with them, we thought we'd pop you a few personalised recipes."

Talk about Big Brother. Actually I was quite cross as I'd also bought a bottle of wine and had to wait more than 5 minutes for a human being to come and confirm I was over 18.

As we know, smart phones can pick up all sorts of things. I have certainly had personal conversations translated into receipt of unsolicited advertising .

Not wanting to turn this into a discussion about Digital ID, but it does surely flag up the need for, at the least, the very strictest possible safeguards and guarantees, and a long and genuine public consultation into every aspect of the scheme and implementation .

[french frank]

Not wanting to turn this into a discussion about Digital ID, but it does surely flag up the need for, at the least, the very strictest possible safeguards and guarantees, and a long and genuine public consultation into every aspect of the scheme and implementation .

Humans will be like the dinosaurs - we'll die out because our brains won't adapt to changes we can't control. Not so smart after all

[vinteuil]

Humans will be like the dinosaurs - we'll die out ...

... which of course will be a good thing for the planet

[french frank]

... which of course will be a good thing for the planet

Absolument, it will. (I cut out all the added doom-mongering from my original reply before posting!)

I was recollecting my undergraduate days and have confirmed that the university library back then didn't even have a photocopier. And what a lot of extra labour that entailed (compared with dragging oneself out of an armchair to change channels on the TV set).