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13. I can't even figure out what possible use SIRI has

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 03:53 AM

Dec 2013

with the exception of invariably coming on when my phone is in my pocket and I'm tying my shoes, as if I had a female HAL in my underwear.

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Illustrated timeline of anti-fun moral panics [View all] Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 OP

Impressive! silverweb Dec 2013 #1

I love this! 1000words Dec 2013 #2

Ha! I actually have a copy of "Computer Power and Human Reason" friendly_iconoclast Dec 2013 #4

I can't even figure out what possible use SIRI has Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #13

Its all evolution. flying rabbit Dec 2013 #3

Cool! Although... cyberswede Dec 2013 #5

I know people who STILL have zero interest in computers. Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2013 #7

And yet whose lives are inextricably linked to computers Pretzel_Warrior Dec 2013 #9

I'm one of them! Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #10

Now it's smart phones and social media that will be the ruin of us Pretzel_Warrior Dec 2013 #8

Know what's really anti-fun? BainsBane Dec 2013 #11

I hear ya. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #12