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To: Earlie who wrote (40116)	12/20/1998 12:30:00 AM
From: Shane M	Respond to of 132070

I still get a kick out of the ability of the word recognition software to actually do what it does. When one actually examines what the software is doing, it borders on the incredible in my opinion Earlie, When I used Dragon for the first time I was absolutely amazed. It seems to me there's alot more than recognition going on, however, because it was able to interpret better when I spoke in complete sentences. This to me indicates a great deal of "context" sleuthing is occuring. You are correct though. Correcting individual words can be tedious. we N. Americans "want it all". I agree here wrt to internet computing vs. PC computing. But one thing PC computing doesn't deliver is simplicity and that may be why household penetration for PC's is stalling at 30 to40%. I don't have a strong conviction that internet computing will happen, but I can definitely see a case for some form of it. I, for one, would love the ability to logon to the internet at home and pull up files I was working on at work and vice-versa. Right now connection speeds make this unworkable, as well as the limitation that I don't have the same software installed on my home PC as my work PC. Internet computing solves alot of problems if the connection speed problem can be solved. JMHO, Shane