While the variety of devices launched or updated are as disparate as a home-roaming robot and a television set, Amazon’s hardware chief, Dave Limp, is emphatic that they all serve the company’s grand mission—constructing a silent infrastructure of ambient intelligence to do just about anything for us.
Think of it as the opposite of the metaverse: Instead of asking people to venture into an artificial virtual world, Amazon wants to weave its computing products, whether it builds them itself or licenses the technology to others, into our homes and cars, to the point where the technology seems invisible, even as it switches on gadgets, alerts us to home intruders, and figures out what we want to watch or read next.
As predicted in 2006 by Adam Greenfield in his visionary book Everyware.