I don't have Alexa at home but it seems a lot of people now do. I have also read some news where there are already "smart cities" wherein data of the people living in there are actually being collected that are supposed to be used to make their homes "smarter" with the use of artificial intelligence.
Would you be willing to give basically information of just about everything you do in exchange for a "smarter" home?

And I am talking about "smart cities". I was reading this article > https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/google-sidewalk-labs/575551/

It says: Soon enough, we’ll have a smart city: Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is building one “from the internet up,” with help from a series of private-public real-estate partnerships in the downtown Toronto neighborhood Quayside.

The “vision document” imagines not only the revitalization of a 12-acre plot that has sat largely vacant since its heyday as an industrial port, but its transformation into a micro-city outfitted with smart technologies that will use data to disrupt everything from traffic congestion to health care, housing, zoning regulations, and greenhouse-gas emissions.

But all those data require mechanisms to collect them, and the march to an “always on” city has drawn an onslaught of accusations against Sidewalk Labs and its real-estate partner, Waterfront Toronto, for dismissing privacy concerns and misinforming residents. In the past month, four people have resigned from Waterfront Toronto’s and Sidewalk Labs’ advisory board over concerns about privacy and lack of public input.
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If you were informed beforehand about all these privacy concerns, would you still live in a "smart" city that is supposedly convenient and "smart" to live in?

Incite fear of foreigners?

Some SME's are putting their products in Amazon. Instead of letting it destroy them, they joined it and utilize it to even boost their sales even more.

I saw this post in reddit and I completely agree with the OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9z0k1v/unpopular_opinion_those_who_use_bitcoin_to_buy/
"I’m not the first person to say this and I won’t be the last, treating bitcoin as an investment and leaving it in a wallet for years at a time does nothing for the coin or the community. As much as it puts a bad taste in congressional mouths and casts a dark shadow on bitcoin, people who use it to buy stuff on the dark net are using bitcoin for its intended purposes

You know, as a currency?"

I think I've been saying this for so long now. Until the time comes that bitcoin is used as a currency, it's never going to be stable. If you don’t spend it, you are not going to create demand, and if you don’t create demand, might as well stop mining it.

Who likes being ordered around anyway?

Could you provide some links that we could read so that we can have more context about the topic that you are talking about?

I only travel outside the country maybe 3 to 4 times a year but whenever I do I wish there is just one currency that I could use whether it is "real" money or virtual money. I just think it would be more efficient if there is one common currency since the world is getting smaller anyway and traveling the world has been in vogue for quite some time now. I can use my credit card, yes, but it often makes me wonder how much money would I be charged at the end of the billing period if say the currency exchange changes a lot from the time I swiped my credit card. And well, I just don't want the bank charges. Is there a possibility for a crypto to be able to provide this service? 

I just want to metaphorically scratch my head every time tries to mind someone else's business that doesn't hurt anyone else. Like the lgbt, would people suddenly explode if their neighbors are gays? The religious people who try to tell everyone they are evil if they don't believe a god.

By just reading the definitions, theory is not always equal to fact that's why it's just a theory.

I am actually proud of my first pictures on Facebook. I was so fit back then! LOL Now, not so much. I try to stay away from cameras. It's great that somehow Facebook has been able to immortalize our experiences. When we go back to it, it feels like a time capsule. If Facebook survives a few more decades, it will be awesome, funny, and nostalgic.

If you protect their rights, would that stop you from protecting yours?

If your husband leaves you, it doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman or whatever. There's just something wrong with him or you.

You cannot watch lgbt films because you do not like the lgbt.

Live and let live. You are not going to die if your neighbor has a relationship or marries someone of the same sex.

You die. There's nothing. What's left of your body will decay. Unless of course you somehow find a way to be immortal. Or, you are young enough for you to be able to avail digital immortality as promised by some current immortality researches who claim to be able to make it available by 2050. If so, you will be immortal, at least virtually.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewarnold/2018/11/09/how-institutional-investors-are-changing-the-cryptocurrency-market/#2626a7b15bfd
Goldman Sachs Group has just become the first investment bank to offer a bitcoin trading product to its customers. At the beginning of November, the company started onboarding a small number of clients to test their new crypto trading desk, which allows trading bitcoin non-deliverable forward contracts.

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner New York Stock Exchange, has also scheduled a launch of their bitcoin futures product for later in December. The contracts will be backed by bitcoin reserves held in ICE’s Digital Asset Warehouse, meaning that actual bitcoins will change hands once the contract expires.

Institutional investors are growing their tech muscle to accommodate more crypto-trades. Individual investors should definitely stay alert for the new products entering the market.

woah! I wasn't expecting something like this from Thailand. Great for them! This is one of the best things for blockchain to be used in - tracking taxes! The government want to know who are paying the right taxes. People want to know what's happening with it.

Good for mastercard in using blockchain in their business. This just shows that blockchain, although frowned upon as just a buzzword by a lot of people, is actually already spreading in a lot of businesses as it is actually a good technology that could be used not only in cryptocurrency.

"Government should implement blockchain technology to prevent corruption." - this is the very reason why blockchain would not be implemented by a lot of governments especially in developing countries.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/07/hublot-bitcoin-watch/
Hublot is also planning to give customers the option to buy its other watches with cryptocurrencies.
It's called the Meca-10 P2P, and it was designed for the cryptocurrency's 10th year anniversary. In fact, Hublot will engrave the unique Bitcoin transaction number you used to pay for the device on the edge of its bezel before shipping it. According to Bloomberg, one Meca-10 P2P will set you back around $25,000, based on the current Bitcoin value.

Hublot is only making 210 pieces as a reference to the 21 million global Bitcoin limit, and the company told Bloomberg that it has already received over 210 orders for the device. The company has teamed up with Hong Kong company OS Limited (OSL) to perform background checks on the buyers, since every application is subject to approval. OSL will also conduct anti-money-laundering checks to ensure no bad actor is using the opportunity to turn illegally-obtained cryptocurrency into a legit luxury good.

I'd buy it if I have the $25,000 as it would really be collectible.

Just do what you love doing and let them fall. No need to be worried about it. 

Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken 5.