Project Alice – an open source virtual assistant that can run offline
Offline is the key here. I wrote a short story not so long ago [1]
about the educational potential of near-future world where storage
gets so dense and cheap that the tide turns back toward local
computing, away from the trend of the past 10 years toward "online
cloud".  What happens when the corpus of all human knowledge really
can sit on your table top as the early sci-fi writers predicted?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/2048-information-unchained-and-even-schoolgirls-win-nobel-prizes" rel="nofollow">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/2048-informatio...</a>