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California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Oct 14 07:08:01 2017
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:59:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Has anyone heard if the smart speaker companies (Amazon Echo, Google Home)
plan to include emergency alert capability? An estimate 10% of households
own a smart speaker, and Gartner (well-known for its forecasting
accuracy) predicts 75% of US households will have a smart speaker by 2020.
Although most silicon valley tech nerds are still in the "invincible"
years, were the california fires close enough to silicon valley that smart
speaker developers might think an emergency could affect them. And
an emergency alert capability in their smart speakers might be important?
