Will Amazon Control Your Microwave and Your Car?

Good article, Bob.
No, Amazon will not be controlling anything in my house or car. First I would not trust Amazon invading my space and, most of all, I don't trust the Internet, period. I have a home network that include the Internet but my router is powered off when I shut down for the night. I can brew my own coffee, defrost my own peas, and manage my entertainment source on my own, thank you.

Amazon also will not take over my life. Too much is going on already. We need to step back from the technology of control, not mindlessly absorb it.

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Echo is supposed to be good?
Echo is supposed to be good?
Echo is supposed to be good?

i do most of my shopping on walmart and others, i don't trust amazon, facebook, google, microsoft or anything else connected to big brother...he's watching!!!

This could be the greatest thing to ever happen to the human race! Or the worst! The electronics are the only thing the current generation has known. Sure it is convenient, but at what price. The biggest concern, that I have, is that the leaders in all this automation have far left leanings. First they do your thinking in the little things and then they start to influence on the larger things. I like the idea of automation, just don't care for who's driving.

I'll walk and eat cold, raw food before I let Amazon control my car or my microwave. I trust Amazon as far as I can spit upwind in a gale. Amazon has gotten too big and the Government needs to cut Amazon and greedy Bezos down to a more reasonable size. Where is Teddy Roosevelt when we need him?

Jeff Bezos has too much money already. And Amazon is already too pervasive. I'm surprised small retailers anywhere in the U.S. can compete. I'll continue to shop locally, use Amazon only for factual reference, and not let Amazon within 500 miles of my car or home.

After reading the above comments, I'm a little more optimistic about the future. BLESS YOU ALL!

You have got to be kidding me. Have Americans lost all of their self-reliance?? I don't even use cruise control; I like driving, and I am not turning over control of my car to anything else.
And, no electronic device is taking over my kitchen.
Thanks much, Bob, (I think) for the blast from the future. At least, we know what is coming.

Thank you for informing us on what is down the pike! No! I will not have Amazon intrude into my kitchen, my car, or anything else, which is mine! No! I do NOT want to give Amazon my information. Besides, I have a very good brain that I can use to think for myself. If I use my brain to think about theoretical astrophysics, quantum theory, geosciences, and an array of other geeky and intellectual subjects, I can certainly use my own brain to remember when to defrost food or run my other appliances. I don't need Amazon or some gadget telling me or reminding me what to do! All those gimmick are there to pilfer people's money!

It seems the idea is for Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft to do our thinking for us. We can just be an organic algorithm offshoot of their machines. We can let them think (and vote) for us.
Have to agree, how many times do we have to say no here? There are no smart appliances in our house and there will be no internet connection in our next car either. Our present one came before all that junk became "standard" I can see the shock on the salesman's face when we tell him we want the Bluetooth turned off totally.

Unfortunately and unhappily those who need to be warned most likely are not reading or listening to anyone like you, Bob. They are just happy to go with the flow and let someone/anyone do their thinking. I even dislike where Microsoft has taken Windows and am seriously looking to find another OS that will allow me to run my own computer unconnected to The Great Mother. What a mindless age this is becoming! If machines take over the world it will be because we have allowed it. Maybe that's what happened to the many "lost civilizations archeologists keep finding that just disappeared.

My use of Amazon (& Ebay) has been limited only to finding used books, both out-of-print & in-print. I first try Alibris.com, Biblio.com & Abebooks.com and if I find it there, I buy it. They have been in the business longer than Amazon. But I still prefer brick & mortar stores and do try them first. New books from stores, I do pay more but I prefer that. I hear people whine about the trouble they have returning items to the internet stores, I don't have that problem, get to use the product the same day I purchase.
Can anyone imagine streets without stores? No food, book, hardware, appliance, clothing, electronic, etc stores? Only restaurants, but Amazon & Uber are also beginning & starting to take them out. I still use taxies.
The other benefit is that some of my money stays in & supports my neighborhood. The person & family that owns that small business & their employees.
My rant for the day!

In common with other posters above, I will not let Amazon - or Google or ebay or anyone else - have control over my life, my house or my habits. This is yet another aspect of the much vaunted 'Internet of Things' concept in which your appliances will control your life. That in itself is bad enough but when you give one entity effective overall control, you've now acquired your very own Big Brother!
Anyway, I LIKE shopping! I like to pick my own fruit and vegetables, I like to chat to checkout people, and I hate being nagged by self-scan checkout computers!
As a corollary in similar vein, I made a comment on another forum a few weeks back to the effect that the cellphone connected heating controller being pushed (called 'Hive' by British Gas) these days was an expensive (around $250 equivalent) solution looking for a problem. One user told me that it was a worthwhile investment to be able to turn on his heating before he got home. I replied that I had a thermostat.
Same with this Echo, or Alexa or whatever you call it. I can get up an press a button or two, for heaven's sake. We're already becoming a population of inert couch potatoes. To have a gadget to everything for you is not going to improve matters - and giving up control of your life to a giant corporation isn't going to do any of us any good at all.

Wow and wow again, I didn't realize that so many people had the same thoughts that I did about "BIG BROTHER" watching and trying to take over our lives. That kind of renews my faith in mankind.