Did she ask for a challenge or specify a Tik-Tok challenge?
We have Alexa & 2 Dots in the house. Kind of creepy at first, but the kids/grandkids love it and use it all the time. I figure anyone with a cell phone is being listened to/clouded anyway.
We use the Dot in our area of the house to control lights, set timers & reminders and keep track of stuff we need to get at various stores. Plan to get a thermostat that we can control with it at some point (our house gets cold/hot at times for no discernible reason, even when we set the thermostat timers)
Just another gadget that can be handy, but not essential.
"The telescreen recieved and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. |
This was 73 years ago...