Last week I had to help the sensitive second grader with his first research project and once again I was amazed at how easy those things are now with the Internet. How easy high school and college must be now with all the technology that we didn't have. I mean no trips to the library, no card catalogs, no encyclopedias - click, done. In fact, I bet college students now wonder how in the world us old geezers managed without cell phones, the internet, instant photos, text messaging, facebook. But my girlfriends and I often comment at how lucky we were that none of that existed. There were plenty of incidents that I'm glad were not captured digitally to live forever. And drunk dialing caused enough trouble - imagine what I could do with email?!?!
It appears that the smart people at Google are on the lookout for those types of problems (I mean after Google Earth dug to the ocean's floor what was left to do?). Apparently you can easily turn on the Mail Googles program and after a set witching hour - let's say 9:00pm - before you can send an email you have to complete a series of not-so-complicated math problems forcing you to contemplate professing your love or worse. I imagine this is a handy tool. And I imagine you could use it the other way, too. "Sorry I didn't respond, I was too loaded to get past the math."
Maybe this won't solve the world's problems - but just like all those iPhone apps that I find so cool but would never use (such as MRI readers) - it's just nice to know it's out there.
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