Alexa down!

Alexa down! She, the brainchild of Rohit Prasad - India-born person who breathed life into Alexa, and lead technology side of project almost from its inception. Amazon Alexa Echo a marvel of voice activation technology, (reportedly voiced by Nina Rolle, a voice actress and singer based in Boulder, Colorado, though neither Amazon nor Rolle officially confirmed nor denied rumor). Aforementioned electrical engineer recognized as being a key figure leading the technology side of the project and the AI that powers it, along with his colleague Tony Reid. Yours truly welcomes with bated breath yet to be designed technological electronic marvels making yesteryear's futuristic technological inventions appear laughably quaint. Courtesy a fellow tenant we (the missus and me befriended) gifted an Amazon Echo. Rather than enrich the coffers of Jeff Bezos (paying five dollars a month for commercial free listening), we (the missus and myself) clearly enunciate "Alexa off" when product or service plugged, and like an obedient quasi robot, she shuts herself off after being screamed at until me blue in the face (methinks she snubs authority) indicated courtesy snapping, crackling and popping sounds plus a ring of fiery light flashing an expletive that necessitates off afterwards. Ah...I just love the latest in modern technology, especially entrepreneurs who dream up out of this webbed wide world gizmos sporting the latest capacities in artificial intelligence that boggle the mind. At some point in time, what appeared as futuristic yesterday will become the everyday humdrum reality of today, whereby sophisticated machines (smarter than their inventors) will serve as prairie home companions (emulating Norwegian bachelor farmers for eligible bachelorettes) performing much of the labor (such as making powder milk biscuits giving shy people the necessary courage) and be heavily involved and outright aggressive incorporating significant decision making within the military intelligence complex essentially rewriting the rules not only applicable to mortal Kombat, but also taking charge of the levers of power and consigning population at large to rough and tumble modus operandi of survival, whereby fearsome bloody foo fighting gangs (from Battle Creek) cripple the infrastructure and enslave those who trumpet and/or advance progressive policies (read Democratically liberal tenets) to chain gangs subjected to backbreaking labor from sunup to sundown. Those who attempted to escape the torturous existence only found themselves condemned to a fate worse than death, albeit getting caught cheating by the wife.