[wotsrovert]

Of late, I've paid attention to how many letters I must type into "google" before it generates an auto-completed phrase I'm searching for.

I am profoundly impressed by how little typing is required. It certainly feels like communicating with an artificial intelligence.

This feels like value created on a giant scale.

My father was one of the first computer programmers: starting sometime around the late 50's, he wrote code in a language called octal, using vacuum tubes and wires. One of his first projects was to write a routine to calculate square roots.

Fifty years later, a computer knows that when I type "toc", I'm probably looking for the "Tournament of Champions Squash Tournament" presently being held in Grand Central Station. Remarkable.