All Ears: Always-On Listening Devices Could Soon Be Everywhere(wsj.com)
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All Ears: Always-On Listening Devices Could Soon Be Everywhere
https://www.wsj.com/articles/all-ears-always-on-listening-devices-could-soon-be-everywhere-1531411250
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Big brother is listening... spooky thought, but definitely a possibility in the near future
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Who the heck would want to always being turning down the music to utilize these devices anyway?
... I've been pondering the idea of a generalized replacement control board for say washers/dryers, with the primary goal to reestablish the expectation of user control over these things (and perhaps enable sane IoT rather than gimmick-based). Faced with the prospect of needing a new microwave and remembering how my blood boils when using the ones that can't even get the basic #-#-#-Go keypattern right, I'm seeing the angle there too. Perhaps in the future we'll just have to physically gut the control boards of appliances immediately after purchase similar to how we presently have to gut the software of new phones.