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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from hankfu]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This reminds me of a Japanese short-movie I saw about a whole population of people becoming recluses.  The movie focused on the convenience of home-delivered pizza and a man who becomes dependent upon the deliveries as his only connection to the outside world.  Eventually he becomes enamored with a delivery girl who has some sort of restart button on her thigh (or somewhere) and ventures out of his home to find her.  Outside, he finds a world of recluses like and him and society has broken down.  In any case, I think machine-love would end up in this scenario.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from asparaguspee]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here's a book trailer for Siri &amp; Me: A Modern Love Story (no, really truly):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVcFDUIrbR0
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from pastoresch]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Good luck with all that Scott ... I &quot;embraced&quot; the technology boon years ago and now have all the gadgets, not on the level you have of course, but enough. And ... my spirit is now mostly dead .... I am going back to hand writing letters and using the pony express until it dies. After that I will hand deliver them ... I will get to see more of the world that way. I want no part of the world you descibed.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from asparaguspee]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sung to the tune of Cars:

Here with my phone
I feel safest of all
It can turn on a light
It's the only way to live..

iPhone, iPhone

Here with my phone
I feel safest of all
It can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live...

etc.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from whtllnew]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@Homerhoff

Check out Scotts blog from May 28, 'The Digital Crossover']]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Homerhoff]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I've read through the comments, and there doesn't seem to be anyone yet who's responded with reservations about replacing feelings of love and acceptance from a machine instead of traditional human relationships.  Okay, I'll do it.  I find it a bit troubling.  The main thing that troubles me is that those kinds of feelings have to go somewhere - you can't feel love if it just bounces out and comes back to you again.  In your case, Scott, it went to the manufacturer, ultimately - to Apple.  Hmm... giant corporations manipulating our senses of love and belonging... what could go wrong???

I already have teenage daughters that have a pseudo-addictive attachment to their phones, but at least it's tied to instant messaging and communicating with actual people.  If they were as fanatically attached to the phone itself, separate from contact with others, I'd be extremely concerned.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from BobNL]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have very different feelings when I use Apple products. More along the lines of &quot;How the h*ll is this supposed to work?!?&quot;

But then, I don't have an iPhone 5, I'll grant you that.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from jjfoley]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&gt;&gt;  I say aloud, &quot;Where is the dog&quot; and the house says, &quot;The dog is in the kitchen.&quot;

iPhone 5 does that now with Find My Friends (as long as your dog has an iPhone!)  But seriously, I love saying &quot;Where's my wife?&quot; and the phone, which previously let me identify which contact my wife was, fires up Find My Friends and shows me where in the world my wife is -- or at least, where her phone is.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from RavenBlack]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's lucky Siri didn't think you said &quot;Fleshlight&quot;.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Dingbat]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[My dog dislikes your utopia and I completely understand her POV. She is a master at disguising her presence when my husband (not a dog fan) is around. For example, she is not allowed to sleep in our bedroom, but she does - on his side even. Life would get far less pleasant for her if her collar suddenly started giving her away!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from mikeyc0312]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a very interesting idea and I agree that it sounds like fairly standard Sci-Fi material. I would have to say that I wouldn't want it, however. I already spend most of my time trying to avoid contact with other human beings. I don't want to have to spend the rest of my time trying to avoid the sorts of devices (TV, Computers, etc.) that I use to avoid human contact in the first place.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from ricobarnez]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This sounds fantastic - wireless interfacing with the whole home, and indeed life experience. Brilliant.
On another note, I spent half my weekend trying to install a new w-fi router, following the wizard CD, the manual (which contradicts the wizard CD), the support phone line and my far more techy relative - all without success.
Just give me a f******g button that works OK!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from whtllnew]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ive used iTunes.  Ive used winamp.  Ive used Windows Media Player.  Winamp comes close but iTunes is my favorite of the three.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from workerant]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wouldn't what you are proposing be a godsend to the security people? Agree completely about the iTunes interface being awful though. A company that seems to get so much right is also capable of getting so much disastrously wrong.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from whtllnew]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[@hidesy

I guess what this means is the feelings we have for our gadgets depend on what we grew up expecting our gadgets to do.  Which in turn means it will be harder for the engineers of the future to make the people of the future love their gadgets the way Scott is talking about.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Hidesy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gratitude is an amazing rush.  I grew up without power, hot water or various other things that a lot of people take for granted.  I remember the rush when we upgraded from a kerosene lamp to a gas light!  And there are still times I get a rush of appreciation when I turn on the hot tap or flush the toilet.  To those people who say the rush will subside, I guess it does a bit, but that doesn't mean it will go away entirely.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from grannybuttons]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Interesting - my last comment used your wife in the phrase &quot;S h e l l y, dinner!&quot; and it ended up as &quot;!$%*!$%* dinner!   She who must not be named?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from grannybuttons]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Love is supposedly unconditional. But what if your machine hates you back? You can get emotional when you say &quot;Lumos&quot;  and your flashlight switches on, but if you command !$%*!$%* dinner!&quot; she would soon start to resent you. 

The more intelligent your machine gets, the  more it is going to be a VERY complicated relationship.  Will your iphone start to resent you dictating to your desktop computer? Or, indeed, the time you spend talking to your wife?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from alvosejk]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Before reading through the end, I also said to Siri: &quot;Flashlight&quot;.
And Siri said: &quot;I don't know what you mean. If you like, I can search the web for &quot;Flashlight&quot;&quot;.
I'm a bit less enthusiastic right now.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from RandomThoughts]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-06-26/

By the way, searching for 'dust' doesn't bring this strip in strip search. 
Siri, make dilbert strip search as cool as Google!]]></description>
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