{"id":127,"date":"2019-12-16T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2019-12-16T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T16:37:00","slug":"alexa-whats-a-narrative-that-never-goes-out-of-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/16\/alexa-whats-a-narrative-that-never-goes-out-of-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa, What’s A Narrative That Never Goes Out of Fashion?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Businessweek published a big cover story about “eavesdropping” smart speakers last week, complete with a WTF video illustration<\/a>. I thought the story seemed kind of familiar, so I went digging through some newspaper archives, and sure enough:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the 2012 edition<\/a> of the story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2012\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And 2005<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2005\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2004<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2004\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1998<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"1998\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1993<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"1993\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1991<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"1991\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1990<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"1990\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And finally, 1964<\/a>, with an illustration to match Businessweek’s 2019 visual:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"1964\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And you’ve got to love the advice it gives at the end of the story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"1964\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Alas, I couldn’t find a story from the time when writing was invented, but if tech journalism was around back then, there’s a pretty good chance there’s a clay tablet carving somewhere hyperventilating about how everyone now had a way to produce a record of everything you said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Businessweek published a big cover story about “eavesdropping” smart speakers last week, complete with a WTF video illustration. I thought the story seemed kind of familiar, so I went digging through some newspaper archives, and sure enough: Here’s the 2012 edition of the story: And 2005: 2004: 1998: 1993: 1991: 1990: And finally, 1964, with… Continue reading Alexa, What’s A Narrative That Never Goes Out of Fashion?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnzhu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}