Alarm.

Zu Beginn des Gesprächs stellten sie einen Wecker. Der ältere Herr am Nebentisch mag gedacht haben dies sei für den Fall dass sie vor Langeweile einschlafen würden, doch dieser war das Gegenteil. Sowieso konnte er den Wecker in diesem aus seiner Sicht modernen Apparat nicht erkennen.

Please Contact.

May you always have a name and a phone number for the "emergency contact" field.

ASAP.

software programming is not typing

a friend of Jeffrey Ventrella

Equipment.

Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Suzanne Collins: Catching Fire

Failbook.

Algorithms are essentially thoughtless. They model certain decision flows, but once you run them, no more thought occurs. To call a person “thoughtless” is usually considered a slight, or an outright insult; and yet, we unleash so many literally thoughtless processes on our users, on our lives, on ourselves.

Eric: Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty