Electronic messaging is part of the furniture of life now: texts are sent to inform employees that they .. er ... aren't any more; government memos advising that today is a good day to bury bad news (about 9/11) are hastily despatched and paid for later; office FAX machines are effective broadcasters of compromising pictures (take note GB of London).
In the days of snail mail, those who could wield a pen had to think carefully about what they wrote. Partly because what went down on the paper was difficult to erase (I just changed what I had written there), and partly because, like old Entish, anything that was worth saying took a long time to say.
Making a complete fool of yourself in an unretractable message has never been easier. And so our friendly boffins at Google Labs have come up with a clever scheme to protect the unwary (for unwary read drunk) Gmail user from sending a message they might regret later.
The idea is called Mail Goggles and it stops you from sending an email if you're not in a fit state. And that's determined by your ability to solve some arithmetical questions. It only starts up late at night at weekends when, as they diplomatically put it, «you're most likely to need it».
The Impressionist has mixed feelings about this. First, it's optional so most people will turn it off. Second, is it such a bad thing that people blurt out the truth when they don't intend to. There is after all nothing new in that. The fact that John wants to sleep with Mary is not of great interest to the other employees of XYZ, or perhaps even to Mary.
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