For the first couple weeks
of every January,
many of us will put
the wrong year on documents.
We’ll write 2021
instead of 2022.
This is normal.
This is expected.
Many of us do this.
Yet very few programs
will flag this
as a possible error.
If I spell any word wrong
here on this blog
or in a word document
or in an email,
the programs indicate that.
That word will be underlined in red
or the program will try to autocorrect it
or I’ll be asked if I want to use spell check.
If I use the wrong date
with most programs,
nothing happens.
There’s no indication
we’re dating something in the past.
I think of this
whenever people claim
all the big advancements
have been done.
One simple large improvement
hasn’t yet been implemented.
Someone has yet to ‘invent’
date check.