Our voice is important for Democracy… and in getting more productivity from our technologies.
The future sounds a little like Cold War Eastern Europe as the digital assistants try to listen-in and construct individual dossiers on each of us — to sell us goods and services rather than sell us out as secret policemen — but then again there’s all types of data buyers and digital assistants will only get better.
I have been reading some of the reviews of the improved and updated digital assistants — a growing crowd — and there is a common theme of disappointment.
Steve Kovach at Business Insider says it’s time to admit digital assistants are overrated:
The hype around digital assistants is real. But for now, it's just that. Hype. And it’s arguably the more overrated than any other emerging technology…digital assistants have turned into a fragmented mess and they're all little more than a minor convenience, assuming they work at all.
The biggest disappointment seems to be that they all handle applications poorly. Yet we live in a 24/7 app world and each of us rely on dozens of daily apps to get work, life and the people and things we love organized.