Say it like you mean it

What if there was a feature to add tone and context to what we want to say?

In a series of mishaps starting from demonetisation to COVID-19, the world was forced to do a makeover to digital. A lot of conversations, both informal and professional, are now increasingly typed out on some digital device. There are very few of us who are masters of the spoken and written word or conversational wizards all the time. If you have been misunderstood anytime over something that you typed out and sent, you can relate to this. More communications are expected to go digital. There is no looking back for digital, why should we? What if there was a feature to add tone and context to what we want to say? We have filters and tones for different images. Instagram thrives on the façade. Language, on the contrary, has only been able to go till an autocorrect or autosuggestion, and perhaps the necessary translation. This would have been equivalent to correcting your acne and changing the background. There is a lot of untapped potential in language too. While Friends, the TV show, was intelligent to hint this when a certain recommendation was signed by a baby Kangaroo, with our current level of artificial intelligence, we might be able to do much more. Think about it.