I don’t own (or want) an Amazon Echo or Google Home, but I understand the appeal. My kids are constantly asking me to play the same songs on repeat—“Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down),” “You’re Welcome,” “Un Poco Loco”—and it would clearly be much easier if they could simply say “Alexa, play ‘Un Poco Loco’ from the movie Coco.” But I can say “No, not right now,” a smart speaker cannot.

My calculation is that any potential benefits I might enjoy from a smart speaker would…

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