Amazon Sidewalk is a new deal from Amazon. It is a specialized branch of the internet available to anyone and anything close to an Amazon device if its Sidewalk service is turned on. Lynn asked a useful question: why are they offering it? I looked that question up in Google and got an answer about IoT, the "internet of things". That is the expanding network of smart devices that assist us. The wikipedia says this about IoT:
The Internet of things describes the network of physical objects—a.k.a. "things"—that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the Internet. Wikipedia
I deal with the Amazon Kindle reader often. It is a "thing" that I am glad to have but it can misfire. I am a rather weird fellow and am old enough to have learned that, as my brother-in-law said, I "don't fit the demographic". That is, my tastes, interests, background, beliefs, history, etc. are not typical. So, at this point, I am not too interested in being assisted by "smart" or not-so-smart things, devices, machines, etc. I imagine that machines may get so smart, handy, helpful and quick that they will indeed be a genuine help, but I suspect they have a way to go.
