I've worn Alexa-enabled glasses for two weeks. They're driving me bananas

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18 points·rmason··7 comments

It would be difficult to concoct a more diabolic mechanism for driving people insane than a disembodied voice that is constantly whispering in your ears.

The whole experiment reads like the beginning of a Black Mirror episode!

Read "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.

http://tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

Hmm like mimicking the auditory hallucinations experienced during an episode of psychosis in schizophrenics?

> "WashPost," chirped my glasses over my morning coffee to let me know about a news alert. "Outlook," Alexa said minutes later, interrupting a real conversation with an offer to read my latest email.

I think this is the problem that Apple is trying to fix with moving its software development platform (Mac) to (A beefed-up version of) the same hardware as the target platform (iPhone/iWatch).

Awareness of social context is going to be the next killer app.

> Awareness of social context is going to be the next killer app.

Hahaha, ironic that this is something most developers capable of these kinds of programming can't handle IRL

I don't know if it's just because of our large corporate company culture, but no one in our developer teams is really socially inept like the usual trope.

Take them off.

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