Amazon's Echo Dot Kids Edition

This is both the most remarkable and most unremarkable thing I've seen recently. Unremarkable because is an obvious line extension. I thought Amazon already sold a kids edition of the Echo.

Remarkable because this is obviously the future, here today.

I predict that the impact of this on humanity will be far greater than the impact of all previous technology.

I say this without hyperbole.

Imagine kids growing up everywhere with a magical genie that responds to voice commands, their voice commands. Answering all their questions, and bringing them anything they ask for -- anything in audio (and soon visual, someday physical) form.

A child could use this before they even learn to read, and have access to the sum total of human knowledge, and any capabilities granted to them (by their parent's credit cards).

Imagine being someone who grows up in a world where it is the most natural thing to speak your heart's desire at any time, and have it automatically fulfilled by powers unseen.

How will people growing up with this tool be different from those who grew up without it?

How will civilization be different when everyone grows up with this tool?

Can we even think of humanity the same way once everyone is thoroughly dependent on such tools?

Are we inevitably destined to become a bio-tech symbiont?

Can there be any alternative?

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