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Bad analogies. Your car would fall apart long before it cranked up to a speed even approaching speed of light. It's not designed to do that - it's just a hunk
by bdunbar 14y ago
Bad analogies. Your car would fall apart long before it cranked up to a speed even approaching speed of light. It's not designed to do that - it's just a hunk of iron and plastic.
Mail is 1s and 0s.
There is no reason why we can't have intelligence acting on those bits: doing rote tasks is what computers are good at.
If you're happy with mail as-is, great.
But consider that it could be better.
- khyryk 14y agoI've failed to prevent people from getting caught up on the less important parts. Okay, how about this: MS Excel is a product that accomplishes a certain set of objectives for a great number of people. Suppose the title of this thread were "Why do people say Excel is broken?", to which someone would respond that they can't clickity here and there and have Excel take complete care of their investment portfolio. Whether or not this is technologically feasible, saying that Excel is broken just because it fails (out of the box, at least to my knowledge) to support a particular feature in some particular way that someone may want is silly. Of course anything can be better, but let's be realistic about what's broken and what isn't.
- bdunbar 14y agoOf course anything can be better, but let's be realistic about what's broken and what isn't. Fine. But I'm going to hold on to my fantasy of wanting an app that does in bits what a secretary used to do in real life.