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all new technology is overestimated in the short term, and underestimated in the long term.

(soar - overestimated)

for example, years ago in the era of dragon naturallyspeaking, ALL computers would momentarily be using speech recognition.

and it didn't happen

but quietly speech recognition started working in the background - call trees on the phone, and other places where a strict vocabulary could help. it quietly grew and nowadays it is everywhere.



It may have grown, but the world hasn’t changed that much. Most people use text still





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