OK, so we have had tools to protect us from ourselves forever, but we take them for granted except when they don't work. Spell check is great, but no matter how many times I tell it to learn my last name, which is "Starr," it always tries to change it to "star" or "starry." My iphone has developed the habit of changing "if" to "i'f" for some reason, and my old Mac in college used to tell me that my papers were 8th grade level unless I inserted ubiquitous ten cent words that served no other purpose than to add pretentiousness... Still, layout editors, spell check, auto-complete and any number of other tools do, in the end, make our lives easier to some degree.
Apparently, now, google has taken this to an entirely new level, and I'm thrilled that it can, but I am saddened that it needs to. You see, this morning I wrote an email on my gmail account to an associate reviewing a conference call that we were on and it covered several topics, but at one point in the email I mentioned that I would be attaching some tower photos to the email for her due diligence, but then I forgot to actually attach them before I hit the send button. Oops, not the first time I've done that, but something different happened this time. Gmail gave me a pop up that said, and I paraphrase, "Hey dummy, didn't you forget something! You said you were going to attach some pictures, but I don't see any pictures attached, so why don't you go back and try again before I send this email and embarrass you!" Holy shit, man! Google is reading my emails now, and not just for spelling and punctuation, but for meaning and intent! Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that it caught the mistake, but now I can't deny that google is, indeed, smarter than I am, and THAT makes me sad face...
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