The “Alexafication” of your child

Is your child polite to Siri or Alexa?

Those virtual assistants respond with age-appropriate answers, but manners are missing.

When your child talks to a virtual assistant, there are no manners on either end of the conversation. Does this mean our manner-deficient society will become even less polite as your children grow up?

That’s a risk, as even young children give orders to Alexa and other virtual assistants.

We don’t know how children will be impacted by “ambient computing,” as the industry refers to conversing with screenless devices, but in the meantime, we can all be proactive and model good manners.