Hmmm... Didn't your program insist that you include all of the words in the sentences that are needed? :) re-read below.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Frank Znidarsic <fznidar...@aol.com> wrote: > > Look at the picture. They predicted tug boat airplanes, painted floating >> signs, boies as flight path markers. They knew that air travel was coming >> but they could only extend the existing technology to explain it. > > > That is a great picture. But the person who painted it knew nothing about > aviation. If you had asked aviators experienced with airplanes and > dirigibles how the future might have looked, they would have given you a > much more accurate description. > > In the 1950s many books and cartoons portrayed robots of the future as > being similar to people, walking on two legs with faces and hands. John > Bockris, who was a superb scientist and who know a lot about technology > once ridiculed the notion of household robots dressed in tuxedos pouring > wine. Why they would be dressed in tuxedos I do not know. Anyway, as > everyone now knows most robots even in the 1950s and 60s did not look like > people. We may eventually have mobile robots that resemble people or > animals but the next ones to emerge will look like automobiles, because > that is what they will be. Isaac Asimov once described a robot used to > spelling and grammatical errors in manuscripts, in one of his I Robot > stories. The robot looked like a person -- they all did. It used a red > pencil to mark up a paper manuscript. The ability to use a pencil and do > this would be far more advanced than any robot or personal computer. Yet > Microsoft Word and other programs have been checking spelling and grammar > effectively for over 20 years. That task is easier than Asimov imagined it > would be. In 1978 I was working with minicomputers. I got a list of 120,000 > correctly spelled English. I wrote an effective spell checking program with > it, along with a WYSIWYG text editor. I haven't had to worry about spelling > since then. Some thing are harder to automate than we anticipated, but > others are easier. > > - Jed > >
