Artificial Intelligence offers us some incredible possibilities. One of the ways that each of us can be enhanced is by having a personal assistant that is individual to us. The groundwork for this is being

Mycroft lives a busy life. He typically spends his days giving fundamentals classes in the 'rogue-ish arts' on the Guild grounds when there is demand, and otherwise is often out sniffing for some or other

This is really quite exciting. Mycroft or rather Mycroft-AI is an open source digital assistant that aims to bring privacy back into the equation. To that end they have created a couple of crowd-funding

...I'm probably very late to the game here, but I just stumbled across the Mycroft Mark II Kickstarter (an alternative to the Google Home/Amazon Echo, and absolitely <3 the idea that a) it's open source