Escaping The Web How Siri Changes The Game -

Imagine you are cooking. Your hands are covered in olive oil. You need a conversion: How many tablespoons are in a cup? The old web would have you wash your hands, dry them, unlock the phone, type "tablespoons to cup" into Google, click through to a cooking blog, read a three-paragraph story about a grandma’s farm, and then find the answer. By then, your onions are burnt.

You are curious about the Roman Empire. Do not open Wikipedia. Ask Siri: "Tell me a fact about the Roman Empire." Take the one fact. Do not ask for a second. Remember when curiosity was satisfied by a single nugget of trivia? That was sanity. escaping the web how siri changes the game

The next time you reach for your phone to "just check something," stop. Put your hands in your pockets. Look at the ceiling. Say, "Hey Siri..." Imagine you are cooking

Delete your calculator app. Delete your unit converter. Delete your timer. Route all utility functions through Siri. The old web would have you wash your

If you ask Siri to "play a song," she plays that song. She does not play the song and then automatically play a video of a guy building a log cabin in the woods for three hours (unless you ask for that). If you ask Siri for the definition of "ubiquitous," she gives you the dictionary entry. She does not show you "10 reasons why being ubiquitous is destroying your marriage."

Yes. And that is exactly why she saves your sanity.