From a recent Microsoft Vista press conference in which the built-in Speech Recognition software was demonstrated.

“Computer. Computer. Type ‘Dear Mom. Oh, what a lovely tea party.'”

“DEAD AUNT. MURDER DEATH KILL. MURDER DEATH KILL. MURDER DEATH KILL…”

As a post script, if Pangloss were right and this were the best of all possible worlds, CNBC correspondent Jim Goldman would have had his fingers cut off with a cigar cutter the second he put air quotes around ‘recognition’. What exactly is it about CNBC that attracts such smug, insufferable cunts?

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