As as I was driving, yelling at Google Maps because too many reasons to list, I realized that many people I know have a megacorp that intermediates their lives, it chooses the music, the movies, the news, the restaurants, it knows the music we like, when we eat, what we like to eat, when we get home, how hot we like to keep the house and what books we are reading.

Knowing what I am doing is one thing, but subtly guiding what we do and see throughout the day is kinda wrong.

This is probably the last generation of TVs that will be sold without onboard microphones for the "smart" functionality. LG's 2020 lineup will have them and it'll be trickling down to lower models and other brands.

Like, it's already got microphones in the remote for the digital assistant functionality but you can't leave a remote sending 24/7 because it'll flatten the batteries.