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The caption, "''Another'' way every system eventually becomes email" (emphasis added) is a reference to {{w|Jamie_Zawinski#Notable_Quotes|Zawinski's law of software envelopment}}: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." In this case, it's not that every program will eventually become capable of sending and receiving emails, but rather that Cueball/Randall will treat every program that provides notifications the same way he treats his email inbox. | The caption, "''Another'' way every system eventually becomes email" (emphasis added) is a reference to {{w|Jamie_Zawinski#Notable_Quotes|Zawinski's law of software envelopment}}: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." In this case, it's not that every program will eventually become capable of sending and receiving emails, but rather that Cueball/Randall will treat every program that provides notifications the same way he treats his email inbox. | ||
| β | In the title text, Randall uses this reasoning to explain why he'll never install a smart {{w|smoke detector}}. A smart detector would send a notification to his phone when the smoke level is high enough to trigger it, or perhaps when it is running low on battery; following the same trend, Randall believes he will eventually stop reading the alerts from the smoke detector. Ignoring a smoke detector is dangerous.{{Template:Citation needed}} | + | In the title text, Randall uses this reasoning to explain why he'll never install a smart {{w|smoke detector}}. A smart detector would send a notification to his phone when the smoke level is high enough to trigger it, or perhaps when it is running low on battery; following the same trend, Randall believes he will eventually stop reading the alerts from the smoke detector. Ignoring a smoke detector is dangerous.{{Template:Citation needed}} |
Randall has previously covered his trouble keeping up with email, for example in [[1783: Emails]]. | Randall has previously covered his trouble keeping up with email, for example in [[1783: Emails]]. | ||
