https://medium.com/snips-ai/snips-air-a-private-by-design-open-source-decentralized-voice-assistant-a31e27fb799b

Radios, TVs, washing machines, computers, music players, smartphones, smart speakers… Technology is now a central part of our life. The promise is simple: make the effort to learn how a machine works and it will do something for you more efficiently than you would yourself. Yet, for all the magic and progress it created, a darker side emerged: we became addicted. We kept wanting more technology to do more things, forcing our brain to create coping mechanisms to avoid feeling overwhelmed.

But what if getting machines to do things was as simple as asking them directly? If we remove the cognitive effort of learning how they work, then there would be no friction, no sense of saturation. We could be hyper-connected and yet feel disconnected, making smart devices as ubiquitous and intuitive as electricity. Artificial Intelligence can make technology so effortless that it disappears from our consciousness.