The goal of Phase Three, which we hope to achieve soon, is to respond electronically to the substance of incoming messages.
Speaking of which, does anyone doubt that the point of this is to completely eliminate human beings from the loop? You'll write a letter to president@whitehouse.com, and some kind of AI will process it and determine the proper form letter to be sent back to you. Heck, they'll probably borrow that groovy semantic-parsing spy thingamobob software from the NSA. Actually, even though my knee jerk reaction is to be bothered by this, I'm not sure there's cause. It's not as if the president actually sees the letter you write to him snaimail anyhow. What difference does it make if some minimum-wage secretary picks the proper form letter to send back to you, or if a computer program does?