I don't miss Clippy, per se, but I miss the era when helpful little things had faces. Alexa is a faceless void, like a Shit Janet that spies on you. "Hey, Google" is like being in the future without the dignity of saying, "Computer: Tea, Earl Grey, hot." Where's the soul of any of these things? Where's the joy?
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I wonder if that's not better, though. Faceless intrusions from faceless, monopolistic corporations, while chatbots prove that literally none of these dimwits understood a word of Douglas Adams. They need punchable faces, but that's a recipe for everybody hurting their hands...
Do you think it'd help if we uploaded a three-hour "Hitchhiker's Guide EXPLAINED" to YouTube-... waaait a minute...
That's the alternate-universe story to produce, where a summary goes viral and everybody important in Silicon Valley says "oh, damn, they're right," and closes up shop to sell frozen yogurt...