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How digital assistants become phantom companions

I disabled Siri because I got tired of accidentally triggering it but now I feel lonely in my apartment in a way I did not expect.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The removal of always-listening devices reveals our unconscious emotional dependence on the possibility of technological connection.

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