http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2018/06/21/alexa-turn-on-the-tv-amazons-fire-tv-cube-wants-to-kill-your-remote-with-voice-control/

In the beginning, there was a dial. Then man invented the television remote so he wouldn’t have to get off the sofa.

Then remote controls multiplied . . . so man could never find the right one and his spouse complained that watching TV is so friggin’ complicated.