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And while the questionsSandraevokes are plenty interesting, the plot it ends up delivering is much less so.

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But Sandra isnt quite the artificially intelligent virtual assistant it purports to be.

What if Alexa was actually people?

What happens to our inner lives when we bring these devices into our most personal spaces?

What doour searches express about who we are?

What a world we live in!

and its appetite for playing around with new vocabularies to communicate action, plot, and context through sound.

Robots Sam Esmail, and the writing process will presumably involve more fleshing out of the podcasts ideas.

Perhaps the podcast on its own is too rough, too elemental, too much.

Have you ever tried drinking orange juice concentrate?

Its hard not to have that framing in mind when listening toSandra, where the concerns are familiar.

I wish it werent so.