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Is this primarily marketed to kids in the UK?
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If it weren’t laden with radioactive ethical, security, and infrastructural issues, 10 years from now digging into how kids’ chatter changes over time would be a really interesting data science project.
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I’ll just say … if Amazon releases a HAL9000-themed echo, I’m definitely buying one.
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My guess is such chatter would reflect their awareness of being spied upon by their parents. Kind of like conversations among East Berliners during the Cold War.
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surveillance device for children
Please stop the madness. Please…
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1st speaker: Comrade, what do you think of the new commissar?
2nd speaker: (guardedly) Comrade, I’m sure I have the same opinion of the new commissar as you do.
1st speaker: It is my duty to arrest you.
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Only the infantile beginnings, unfortunately.
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I was thinking more the fading of imaginary friends and the emergence of higher-order logic (must we really sacrifice one for the other?), but that works, too.
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Colour scheme redolent of Pennywise the Clown…
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