A Suggestion That Will Improve the World

Text messages need to have a “Like” button.

That’s all I’ve got for now.

12 thoughts on “A Suggestion That Will Improve the World

  1. +1
    That’s what emojis and emoticons are for.

    Now, integrals I can get behind instead of programming a macro into your phone.

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  2. Of course, if you’re composing in HTML, this might work …

    ∴ it might help to try & # 8 7 4 7 ;

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  3. Text messages should be improved by being able to text from your phone the mobile number of someone annoying you with text messages to the SMS short code GOAWAY, which of course would permanently eliminate the ability to receive messages from that mobile number …

    Also, my “Don’t Like” feature is more useful than your “Like” button.

    🙂

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  4. My suggestion to improve the world. After 10 text messages in a 24 hour period sending or receiving a text is accompanied by a very uncomfortable electric shock.

    Anyone staring at a smartphone for three minutes without breaking eye contact for at least 10 seconds would receive a similar shock.

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    1. Cliff, I-Taze is already on market. Use your app to lock your taser from a distance or increase targeting power with the same technology the US military uses for drones. It runs on mobile phone networks and wi-fi networks and uses bluetooth and GPS technology. A similar app is in the works for your guns as we aim to disrupt the personal protection and game hunting market. Just sign this EULA that states absolves the company of all liability, forces you into binding arbitration and a non-disclosure agreement.

      What could possibly go wrong?

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      1. Sorry, but I bought an i-Pen that locks up the ink supply when it detects that I’m going to sign a contract with deleterious provisions that include giving up some of my rights to legal remedies, so I won’t be able to sign that …

        🙂

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        1. Spoiler alert: The pen never has any ink. If your pen is smarter than you….

          EULAs are electronic and rendered in pixels though. You just click a button and there’s the option to print it out.

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      1. I had some numpty who couldn’t take his eyes off his smartphone actually walk into the side of my vehicle while I was waiting to make a turn at a minor intersection with a zebra crossing …

        He couldn’t take his eyes off his screen long enough to realise that he was actually going to walk into the side of a Ford Escape, which is large enough that you’d think that someone would realise there was a large semi-growling object in front of him and make the appropriate stop in time.

        So I suspect there’s more than a bit of this going on …

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      2. I don’t care about smartphones as such but I hate the dumbed-down digital world they stand for. For the past few years they’ve been ruining the internet (and other computing activities) since everybody’s determined to reduce everything so that it’s smartphone accessible.

        As technologyasnature put it (paraphrasing) it used to be that computers were used as a model to make phones better and now phones are being used as a model to make computers worse.

        The decline in basic computer skills I’ve noticed among my students in the last few years is alarming.

        You know how to use it in moderation but many many many people are being turned into digital illiterates who can play games, text and buy things but can’t format a document to save their lives….

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