Confidentiality Issues
Watching the episode “Data’s Day” of Star Trek: The Next Generation, i came to a realization about my problems socializing with others. In this episode, Data documents his attempts at understanding human emotions in response to a researcher’s query.
Data has serious problems interpreting how people will react to behaviour… he cannot master irony. This led me to the realization that he would have the same sort of problem determining the confidentiality of a person’s conversation. As ultimate disclosure girl, i too have this problem. Maybe i am part android. LOL.
Another five pages of draft is due tomorrow. All i want to do is drink sangria and smoke cigarettes while chatting on a terrace. LOL.
While Data might have had trouble with irony, according to Memory Alpha (the Star Trek Wikipedia), “Data was programmed with several pleasing techniques and was ‘fully functional’”.