By: Emmanuel Gobillot In the late 1990s, Clippy was universally despised. You would be halfway through a sentence in Microsoft Word when a cartoon paper clip with googly eyes bounced onto your screen to announce, “It looks like you’re writing a letter. Would you like help with that?” I can only speak for myself and my colleagues at the time when I suggest that what followed was irritation, dismissal, and a frantic search for the