It is a cunning device to prevent - by choice - people thinking, learning to spell, do arithmetic, learning to research in books and look things up for themselves generally. It tells you things and shows you things, it will write your speech, your essay, the newspaper article you referred to. It will tell you what it want's you to know, that is what your masters want you to know.
It is a crutch for the brain to get used to, and like legs that rely on such will wither away, so too will your brain.
Your thinking will be done for you, it will make your choices:
Now-
Person: "Alexa, what shall I have for breakfast?"
Alexa: "You could have eggs and bacon or toast and marmalade, or cornflakes ... etc."
Soon-
Alexa: "Your breakfast is ready, eat it now."
Person: "I will eat my breakfast now."
In short, people are being dumbed down to follow orders, to accept - without question - what they are told, do what they are told.
At the moment it all seems so wonderful and whizzy and people love using it - saves all that brain power for surfing, game-playing, TV watching et-al. But slowly and surely people will give up independent thought, critical thinking and decision making and become Borg-like automatons. A good read is E M Forster's 'The Machine Stops' for a glimpse into the 'almost there' future.
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