James Gleick laments it for the New York Times.
From the piece...
I MENTION a certain writer in an e-mail, and the reply comes back: “Comcast McCarthy??? Phoner novelist???” Did I really type “Comcast”? No. The great god Autocorrect has struck again.
It is an impish god. I try retyping the name on a different device. This
time the letters reshuffle themselves into “Format McCarthy.” Welcome
to the club, Format. Meet the Danish astronomer Touchpad Brahe and the
Franco-American actress Natalie Portmanteau.
In the past, we were responsible for our own typographical errors. Now
Autocorrect has taken charge. This is no small matter. It is a step in
our evolution — the grafting of silicon into our formerly carbon-based
species, in the name of collective intelligence. Or unintelligence as
the case may be.
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