I?m growing increasingly worried about our evolving relationship with technology, because we seem to be repeating a pattern over and over again: We have an easy time introducing new technologies into more areas of our lives before having a chance to properly think about the implications. Because those conversations are never fully fleshed out, we get pulled in opposite directions.
Take, for example, the fact that as we?re in the middle of an online privacy crisis, we can?t decide whether web-connected devices should be very visible (bigger phones screens!) or hidden away (like, say, in a watch), whether technology should be kept to certain times of the day (you need a phone break!), or integrated into every aspect of our lives.

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Help, my kid is in love with Siri! The latest example of this worrying pattern is the casual adoption and increasing use of Artificial Intelligence?powered speakers and AI personal assistants such as Amazon?s Alexa. AI-powered speakers can be useful in managing your schedule and playing music, but we should be worried about the direction we?re headed when it comes to the technology?s involvement in parenting?an area where we definitely have not considered the consequences.
Recently, Amazon launched a version of its Echo s...