{"id":104,"date":"2009-04-01T10:57:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcdlc\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-04-15T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T16:39:47","slug":"the-automation-of-social-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcdlc\/2009\/04\/01\/the-automation-of-social-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Automation of Social Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quote, perhaps scary, certainly funny, from the information page explaining Google Mail&#8217;s new feature, &#8220;Autopilot,&#8221; designed to ease workload by allowing a bot to answer your Email when you don&#8217;t have time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What happens if a sender and recipient both have Autopilot on?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"spaced\">Two Gmail accounts can happily converse with each other for up to three messages each. Beyond that, our experiments have shown a significant decline in the quality ranking of Autopilot&#8217;s responses and further messages may commit you to dinner parties or                         baby namings in which you have no interest. (See <a title=\"Google Mail's Auto Pilot\" href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/help\/autopilot\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Autopilot<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"spaced\">An April Fools prank, perhaps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quote, perhaps scary, certainly funny, from the information page explaining Google Mail&#8217;s new feature, &#8220;Autopilot,&#8221; designed to ease workload by allowing a bot to answer your Email when you don&#8217;t have time: What happens if a sender and recipient both have Autopilot on? Two Gmail accounts can happily converse with each other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-fools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcdlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcdlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcdlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcdlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcdlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcdlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcdlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcdlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcdlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcdlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}