A Sure Reply From Your BFF/AI
“Hey. Just confirming lunch today at 12:45.”
“Sounds great!”
“Thai or taco truck?”
“Either works for me.”
“I feel like Thai if that’s OK with you.”
“OK with me.”
“We’ll talk face-to-face for a change — so much better than social media.”
“I agree.”
“I’ll post on FB or IG or I’ll tweet something, and I don’t know who’s paying attention. I post some pretty personal things — issues and events in my life that are meaningful to me — and I maybe get a thumbs up or a like, if that even.”
“I know what you mean.”
“You know what’s really scary? Computer-generated responses to texts, emails, etc. ‘Live chat’ just means you’re dealing with mindless software that predicts appropriate replies to whatever you say.”
“lol”
“You laugh, but the singularity is near.”
“Can we walk there?”
“Ha — good one! It’s hurtling toward us, and we’re blind to it.”
“Tell me about that.”
“We scream our emotional pain to the world in a hellish chorus, and receive a message from a Magic 8 Ball reading, ‘Reply hazy, try again.’”
