On March 31, Amazon rolled out the Dash button, which makes it possible for consumers to order products such as detergent on demand literally by pressing a smart button that you place in your home.
For example, when asked if it was smart to keep pressing for the elimination of the corporate tax at a time the administration is under fire for being too cozy with corporate America, the former Alcoa chief dismissed the whole issue.
Once installed, you can launch the smart helper by pressing on the Home button, as you could with Google Now.
Thus did he demonstrate early on a combination of financial smarts with a pressing curiosity as to how things work.
It should be about finding smart, economical solutions to pressing economic problems.
For all the talk of "smart power," President Obama is pressing down the same path of failure in Pakistan marked out by George Bush.
Here's hoping that they also see the pressing need for educating consumers to be smarter healthcare consumers, and pursuing policy that leads to more sustainable healthcare systems.
But the smart pedals would not prevent drivers from pressing the gas pedal instead of the brakes.
As the website Jaded Punk notes, at least their former singer Henry Rollins was "smart enough to stick to his hobbies of bench pressing and being interviewed in front of his record collection for punk documentaries".
For example, you can't switch to another file, or even turn the machine off, without first pressing the Esc key to close the current file; by smart-keyboard standards, that's real complexity.
