Happy Birthday, human
On 17/03/11 15:26, Jim Devine wrote: > Michael Perelman wrote: >> John Markoff recently had an article in the NY Time describing how >> computers are replacing lawyers in doing legal research. > > soon, computers will replace judges! Nancy Grace, watch your back! > > BTW, today's my birthday. That means that so far I've received about > 10 different "happy birthday" messages from computers (various > web-sites I use, stores where I have loyalty cards, etc.) How can > anyone think that this will make my birthday any happier? it's like > when the ATM says "thank you" or "have a nice day." Who is their right > mind thinks that these statements mean _anything positive_ if it's not > expressed by an actual human being or some other self-conscious > entity? or maybe it's because machines are making the marketing > decisions, too? > > I'm surprised that I haven't received any robo-calls singing "happy > birthday" to me! > -- http://commoning.wordpress.com "...I thought we were an autonomous collective..." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
