I’m not anti-technology by any means, but I’m not a “gadgety” person either.
I don’t have an Amazon Echo, or any of those other service robot thingamabobs everyone seems to have. I don’t even use most of the features on my iPhone.
I honestly don’t see the point. I can very easily find out what the forecast is or turn on a song I want to listen to…
I just don’t really get it. For those of you who say Alexa “simplifies” your life… Ok. What did you do with extra 8 seconds Alexa saved you by telling you there’s a High of 63 today? I’m curious.
Anyway, Alexa seems all fine and dandy, but there is no question that the lines of personal privacy are being quickly yet quietly eroded.
No thank you.
Tucker Carlson revealed some of Google’s future plans… and yeah. BEYOND creepy:
NO. NO. NONONONONO.
I am NOT game for this.
According to Daily Caller:
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson reported Tuesday on patents filed by Google that purport to show a bizarre plan to spy on you and parent your children.
“In another patent application from September 2016, Google imagines how it could take control of your parenting, your relationship with your children,” Carlson explained. “Google’s smart home system could detect children near a liquor cabinet for example, or in their parents bedroom, infer that ‘mischief is occurring’ and deliver a verbal warning.”
The Daily Caller co-founder said, “In another example, Google imagines a hypothetical child called Benjamin. Google’s cameras would be watching Benjamin at all times, carefully. They could see if he’s playing outside or using electronics, presumably they’d also try to use that information to sell him things, at some point, because that’s the whole point of Google.”
“The same patent also discusses how the smart home could coach families on ‘areas of improvement.’ For example, if a family doesn’t spend enough time together, eating together, in Google’s estimation, Google might scold them and suggest that they set a goal of eating more often together. That is Google’s description, not ours.”
Because that’s EXACTLY what I want!
GOOGLE telling me how to raise my family!
Reminding us once again that just because we have the TECHNOLOGY to do it… doesn’t mean we should.