If your iPhone’s Siri thinks that two meetings in one day is not bad, does that make her an optimist? Since when did cellphones start making value judgments? This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Optimistic Technology”
Grant, you remember when we were talking about optimism and pessimism and whether if you have a trash can that’s half full, are you an optimist or a pessimist?
Yes.
Remember that one?
We got some great responses about that.
Madeline Hervey wrote from Dallas, Texas to say, the trash can half full describer is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. They’re a realist.
Makes sense.
Very good.
And it brought up an interesting point for Andy Sager, who lives in Plattsburgh, New York.
He said, that discussion led me to think about the recent commercial for the new iPhones, Siri. In the commercial, a businesswoman asked her phone, how does my day look? And Siri, the computerized assistant in the new iPhone, responds, not too bad. You only have two meetings.
And Andy wonders, I wonder how does Siri know that that’s a good thing? Maybe two meetings is bad. And maybe they’re long meetings.
Yeah.
Maybe it’s like two four-hour meetings.
I think Siri is getting a little full of herself.
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