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Apr 15, 2017

Painter, art critic and historian

Interview starts at 15:00 and ends at 41:14

“I remember your talking on one of your programs about Jeff Bezos’s insisting on a one-second [Alexa] response when his staff said, “We can get this down to three seconds,” and he said, “That’s not good enough.” That makes a huge difference. It shouldn’t--we’re so impatient, I’m so impatient. But the fact that it is more more conversational and that I don’t have to wait and think about the fact that this is a machine processing it, makes it much more real to me.”

News

Jeff Bezos’s 2016 Letter to Shareholders - and the 1997 letter (PDF)

“Over 550 Amazon Employees Are Pressuring Leadership to Cut Advertising Ties With Breitbart” by Charlie Warzel at BuzzFeed - April 13, 2017

Tech Tips

How to connect Amazon Tap to a new wifi network (Amazon help page)

Ask My Buddy skill for Alexa

Interview with Kesler Woodward

Painting in the North, Kes’s web site

Western States Arts Federation

Kes Woodward on TKC 50 - July 1, 2009

iPad Mini 4

Bufo Calvin in VR on TKC 453 - April 7, 2017

Content

Audible Range “About” page with email signup

Next Week’s Guest

Naomi S. Baron, author of Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World

Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.

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