I'm old enough to remember when the sci-fi notion of a disembodied computer voice waking you up in the morning, knowing enough about you to strike up a conversation, and accompanying you through your daily routine sounded wonderful.
Now it gives me chills. That old wonderful dream is actually possible now if I turned off all my malware blockers and let :lord-bezos-amused: fully into my home.
I feel this. I feel it hard.
It was one of the big things that turned me from liberal to communist. The promise of liberalism is slow, steady improvement through democracy and capitalism led by the "free world." It was a long and painful process to realize that this is and always was complete bullshit.