Outhorse your email - by John Birmingham
Was traveling with my parents. My Dad turned his iphone on on arrival and it immediately decided to do a software upgrade. The regular "ding" of SMS messages arriving from Telstra, each warning of an extra $100 being added to the bill was almost hypnotic. Quite a few happened before he found the control setting to turn mobile data off. Expensive lesson.
I would so love to see the horse-message system in action though. The video is great.
I can also imagine cut-price alternative systems being set up. Call-center sweatshops full of cats, who we all know can be trained to walk on keyboards. Or rather, can't be trained not to.
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Update: 2024-12-03