Remember when the words you typed didn't change? Those days are gone, thanks to the mixed blessings of Autocorrect. In this New York Times opinion piece, science writer James Gleick recounts some funny stories — (A hot dog vendor dashes to the pitcher’s mound; the manager looks at his hand-held device and says: “Oh, I see what happened. Autocorrect changed ‘southpaw’ to ‘sauerkraut.’”) — before discussing the competing algorithms of Autocorrect.
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