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Is this primarily marketed to kids in the UK?
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.
I’ll just say … if Amazon releases a HAL9000-themed echo, I’m definitely buying one.
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.
surveillance device for children
Please stop the madness. Please…
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.
Only the infantile beginnings, unfortunately.
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.
Colour scheme redolent of Pennywise the Clown…
Sooooo… it’s just louder? They repackaged Echo Silver for kids?
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