OK, "Computer"

Harrison told me in an email that he's gotten a lot of feedback on his proposal. One common objection is that people say "computer" too often in everyday conversation. But it shouldn't be too hard to program the software to infer from tone and context whether it's being directly addressed. Another is that the term feels increasingly anachronistic: Several respondents brought up the iPad Pro commercial in which a kid asks, "What's a computer?" That doesn't strike me as a real obstacle, but it's easy enough to imagine alternative, equally generic wake words if others find "computer" inapt: "device," "machine," and "robot" come to mind.