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Amazon Echo

Amazon · 2014

The Echo is a hardware interface for Alexa—a cloud-dependent voice service. It works well for narrow, internet-reliant tasks. It fails as a private, autonomous, or universally accessible system. Its legacy is not intelligence at the edge, but the normalisation of persistent listening and remote AI dependency.