We could see security deploying pretty quickly," said Ben Parker, a spokesman for the United Nations in Somalia, who was in a meeting nearby at the time of the attack.
"People have a lot of negative perceptions of speech technology, because the speech systems deployed first were pretty bad," says Mr Hong.
But given the uses to which we put our other tomes – whether they're deployed to show-off, look pretty, or create an atmosphere – the odds of them hanging around look good.
Universal game launching is being deployed in v1.3 and that's pretty damn kickass.
"Kris had gone through some pretty intense things while deployed that drastically changed who he was when he returned," Acheson said.
In the BBC interview, Mr. Buckles said he was "pretty sure" the guards already deployed could speak English well, "but I cannot say categorically as I sit here today".
Tireak Tulloch, who served eight years in the Marine Corp Reserve and deployed twice to Iraq said, hesitantly, "It feels pretty good.
"He was pretty much a straight-edge kid before we deployed — no drugs, no smoking, no drinking.
The world went with pretty much the first sort of reactor it saw deployed at scale, contenting itself with increasing its size and trying, over the years, to render it ever less in need of the attentions of the axeman.
(A deeper interpretation might be that personal contact and bogus emotional catharsis really are important elements of how power is deployed and negotiated in Hollywood, leading film stars, who are mostly pretty canny, to misinterpret how things work elsewhere).
