Join me on my most recent though experiment:
Imagine for a second that everyone in the United States owns the exact same microwave. This microwave has a set of numbers to enter the cook time. Now imagine a dazzling new design which automatically recognizes speech and you simply tell it how long to cook. It also can answer basic questions for you -- if you ask it aloud, "How long will it take to melt frozen chocolate chips?" the microwave will preform the Google search in the background and speak back to you, "45 seconds, but stop and stir it twice." What a cool microwave?! ... Until a vivid image of my grandmother creeps into my mind: she accidently asks the microwave a question (when she really trying to talk to my grandma) and drops her chicken stew to the floor when the microwave surprise "speaks" at her. If this truly happened, and millions of people were waiting for the next microwave because there old one needs to be replaced, the world would unite...and complain. They would complain. A lot.
After a long day at the office:
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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