>If anyone ever pulled crap like that on me during a conversation, I would be done with that person forever. I wouldn't care who he or she was.
Assuming one would find out about such, which is plausible, but so is the opposite. I can even imagine such a system being engineered to lower such chances of the recipient being rendered unable to discern such messages from current situations where people ask friends nearby in person or over the phone.
It's amazing to watch what people/computers are able to do that can challenge the social constructs that are ingrained into us that some of us have come to accept as how things should be, only to be collectively reminded from time to time of how such systems are constructed on shifting sands in the scheme of things.
Assuming one would find out about such, which is plausible, but so is the opposite. I can even imagine such a system being engineered to lower such chances of the recipient being rendered unable to discern such messages from current situations where people ask friends nearby in person or over the phone.
It's amazing to watch what people/computers are able to do that can challenge the social constructs that are ingrained into us that some of us have come to accept as how things should be, only to be collectively reminded from time to time of how such systems are constructed on shifting sands in the scheme of things.