There are now reports that Amazon Alexa is doing more than answering our questions about tomorrow’s weather forecast. There is at least one report of her listening to a home conversation and then sending that thought-to-be-private conversation to someone else.
Think about how history could have been changed if Alexa had been around to change history...
- Adolph Hitler is taking a nap on his office couch when Herman Goering comes rushing in and shouts, “Herr Hitler, Alexa just told me that Eisenhower has chosen Normandy for the Allied Invasion of Europe. He will be landing in 3 days. What do you say we divert all our Forces to Normandy and give Ike a real German Welcome to Europe Party?”
- Jonas Salk is famous for inventing the Salk Polio Vaccine. If Alexa had been around in 1952 things could have really been different. One day Dr. Salk was sitting on his porch and he told his next door neighbor the exact formula for his miracle life-saving vaccine and, within weeks, the world was reaping the benefits of the Snidley Whiplash Polio Vaccine.
- Public Enemy #1, John Dillinger, could have had a nice walk to the soda shop after the movie on July 22, 1934 if it had not been for Alexa. Alexa overheard John tell his best friend, Butch The Strangler Orzanski, “I just can’t wait to see Manhattan Melodrama staring Clark Gable at the Biograph Theatre tonight at 8:30”. Alexa notified Melvin Purvis of FBI fame and, after the movie, John was killed by a bullet that entered through the back of his neck, which severed the spinal cord, passed into his brain and exited just under his right eye.
Fella Notes of Interest...
- Today a signed photo of Jonas Salk is for sale on the Internet for $275.
- Even 84 years after his death, an unsigned photo of John Dillinger’s death scene is for sale on the Internet $855.
- A whole bunch of bystanders soaked up Johnny’s blood into their skirts and handkerchiefs. I could not find a selling price for any of those items on the Internet.
- I did find where a $1 bill stained with Dillinger’s blood from the night of his death has sold for $14,340 at Heritage Auctions.
- Dillinger's body was available for public display at the County Morgue for a day and a half. An estimated 15,000 people dropped by to view his corpse.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
