here’s an idea for some aspiring software developer/entreppreneur(and no, i don’t know how to spell ‘entrepprenneur’, thank you very much)…
software: ‘are you sure?’
smart software for computers and phones and pda’s that somehow detects
hostility, drunkenness, aggression, etc, in an email or text message. it holds
on to the email or text message for 10 or 20 or 30 minutes(or longer if it figures
out that you’re drunk at 2 a.m and emailing your ex girlf/boy-friend)and then
re-sends it to you with ‘are you sure you want to send this?’ written at the top.
if you click ‘yes’ then it sends it, if you click ‘hold’ it holds for 12 hours, if you click
‘no’ it deletes it.
it could detect drunkenness and aggression, etc through the presence of certain words(‘asshole’, ‘fuck you’,
etc), lots of punctuation(‘fuck you!!!!!!’), sloppy syntax(‘i just didn’t thinking you were
going to sleeping with my brother’), and bad spelling(‘i kno it’s 3 a.m bot whst are you doingg now?’).
this could prevent lots of hasty and regrettable angry/depressed/drunk/etc emails and text messages.
i’m not a software developer so i’ll never do anything with this idea.
but lots of you are smart and tech-savvy, and you’d be doing humanity a service if you developed this for computers/phones/pda’s.
if you make a billion dollars from this idea just buy me a little sailboat or a pony.
-moby