16 Oct
2017
16 Oct
'17
11:48 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
A smart speaker suddenly announcing "There is a tornado warning in this area, would you like to hear more?" will probably freak-out those same non-technical people.
Simple programming problem. Speaker: "There is a tornado warning in this area, would you like to hear more?" User: "How did you get my phone number?" Speaker: "You have opted out of tornado warnings" Fast forward to the next tornado and techno-darwinism will take effect. Alternatively you could have the speaker ramble on for 10-15 minutes about how the weather alerting system works and maybe the end-user will hang around long enough listening to the explanation... -A