The app that comes closest to a luxury service that I can think of is Superhuman, which charges its users $30 a month for an email client (which you could also get for free by just using Gmail). But there’s a difference to other software products: Superhuman has signal distribution built in. Every time you send an email via Superhuman, your recipient will notice a little “Sent via Superhuman” in your signature.

With a strong enough NLP engine behind the command line interface, the possibilities become endless: Add that New York Times article to your Pocket queue or send it directly to your Kindle to read it later Re-assign Jira tickets directly from Superhuman or send them to your to-do listPay invoices or send money to a friend

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Another approach to confinement is to build rules into the mind of the created superhuman entity (for example, Asimovs Laws of Robotics). I think that any rules strict enough to be effective would also produce a device whose ability was clearly inferior to the unfettered versions (so human competition would favor the development of the more dangerous models).