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Thursday, December 13, 2012

After I’d pondered the advantages and disadvantages of having Siri tell you things as opposed to learning them, I immediately thought of people’s relationships with Siri. She is a good friend. She is friendly, always gives us a straight answer, doesn’t drink or smoke and is clever. She’s exactly the kind of girl our parents stress for us to hang out with. But she’s a computer.
--fcnp.com, "Johnny's World: Dear Johnny," December 13, 2012
(on Apple's iPhone speech-recognition "personal assistant.")

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