There is hope yet

I read this morning, from an email derived from http://www.cbronline.com/ that Professor Google is working on software which will allow us to participate in electronic social activity without actually having to participate in person. We will be able to get on with our breakfasts or whatever, happy in the knowledge that the Professor is taking care of our various electrical in-boxes for us. We won't even have to turn our computers on.

On the other hand, I think I would want to know when an email or post purporting to come from a person I know, really does come from that person. Clearly time for some geek to develop a certificate of human intervention which we can add to our emails and posts and which the Professor cannot spoof. Perhaps it could build on those jazzed up pictures of letters and numbers which you have to transcribe into a little box in order to validate certain kinds of transactions. Would it need some kind of supra-national certificate authority to make it work? Under the auspices of the UN?