You can remove "in the mouth".

And here I believed this was a settled issue ... oh how wrong I was

I really like the DNA analogy, hadn't encountered it before, it is very poignant. > The system becomes like a gene pool without fresh DNA: predictable, fragile, and prone to degeneration.

This is beautifully written article.

It seems quite telling we are even discussing this.

Remember when the original Raspberry Pi computer sold for $35?

They might know something?

More like they don't know the things others do. Siri is a laughing stock.

Sure, Siri is, but do people really buy their phone based off of a voice assistant? We're nowhere near having an AI-first UX a la "Her" and it's unclear we'll even go in that direction in the next 10 years.

"the people said"