LizzieMaine
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I would not go that far! While I do not like texting, it is still a human being, and most likely a loved one, who typed all that gibberish, hash tag, I don't understand what you just sent me! What does a semicolon and a exclamation mark mean? :eusa_doh:
How do you *know* that a person sent that text? How do you know that any one of us here isn't some sophisticated marketing robot, generating automated posts and responses to posts in order to gain insight on the spending habits of however many actual humans are here?
I'm being facetious, probably, but not far from possible reality. Ever get a "robo-call"?
If the futurists of the thirties imagined such a world, it was as a dystopia. Look how often the trope of the robot/artificial intelligence-destroying -or-dominating-its-human-creator turns up in the science fiction of that time, and right on down into our own time. The techno-uber-alles crowd might not fear that, but clearly it's still something that worries people.