Anticipating Our Every Need

Yes, the folks at Google are at it again -- staying one step ahead of the curve. Google has created a beta application that is akin to a breath tester in a car, i.e., your ignition is locked if your breath registers a BA % above a certain rate. In this case, if you sign up for the application and you attempt to send a Gmail between 10 pm and 4 am, you need to complete five math problems to be able to send an email. The intent is to preclude the sending of the email(s) you wrote in a drunken state which you regret the next morning. Back in the day, the risk was the 3am phone calls; many of my friends must have wished there was similar call impeding technology back then. The magic of those calls was that you actually had real-time conversations with the person you called; then again that person was usually half asleep.