Maybe I'm being too
about this, but a theme in today's Google demo was mechanizing interactions with real people to make one's own life more convenient. Auto-complete entire sentences in email, robot voice calls to small businesses, Google Home training your kid to say please
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This is a popular strategy in Silicon Valley's lifehack-obsessed community (as you could tell from audience applause), but they do not give adequate thought to how sterile a world this is to live in, or that people find automated interactions degrading, for good reason
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There is such a paucity of vision in Google's stunted view of the world as a convenience store for the gifted, but that doesn't stop them from rolling out everything at scale in 127 countries, with no oversight or accountability. They're giant kids and the world is their sandbox
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I've been sitting here for a few minutes just appreciating that phrase "stunted view of the world as a convenience store for the gifted." Thank you.
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Thank you! The tweet muse was kind to me today
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