It was supposed to be a gateway into Amazon services alongside their Fire devices, a convenient household companion that would help find all those little things for sale on Amazon’s website, and of course, enable you to buy them. The future is here, and it responds to “Alexa”.īut for all the success that Alexa and other devices like it have had in conquering the living rooms of gadget fans, they’ve done a poor job of generating a profit. We’re not having domestic robots in pinnies hand us rolled-up newspapers, but we’re installing smart lightbulbs and thermostats, and we’re voice-controlling them through a variety of home hub devices. It’s not the futuristic automation of projects such as Disneyland’s Monsanto house Of The Future, but instead it’s our current stuttering home automation efforts. There’s one aspect of the Jetsons future that has begun to happen though.
The Future is Here, and it Responds to “Alexa” “Alexa, why haven’t you been a commercial success?” Gregory Varnum, CC BY-SA 4.0 George Jetson has not yet even entered the building.
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We still sit on a sofa in front of a television for relaxation even if the TV is now a large LCD that plays a streaming service, we still drive cars to the supermarket, and we still cook our food much the way they did. A family from 1965 whisked here in a time machine would miss a few things such as a printed newspaper, the landline telephone, or receiving a handwritten letter they would probably marvel at the possibilities of the Internet, but they’d recognise most of the familiar things around us. Of course, it’s not quite worked out this way. Technology would have rendered every possible convenience at our fingertips, and we’d all live in futuristic automated homes - no doubt while wearing silver clothing and dreaming about our next vacation on Mars. The future, as seen in the popular culture of half a century or more ago, was usually depicted as quite rosy.
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