Oh my Word.
Tech companies are often busy catching up with each other.
“Look what they’ve done! We have to do the same or our very walls will collapse around us!”
No, I’m not specifically referring to Facebook here.
In fact, I’m marveling at the latest little snippet to emerge from the constantly evolving Microsoft.
As my colleague Liam Tung reported, Redmond is introducing Text Predictions in Word for Windows. Because humans can’t be bothered to type whole words anymore.
They need to have an artificial brain sitting on their keyboard like a wise, lonely cat, ready to get ahead of translating their thoughts into words.
Microsoft’s move mimics that of Google which has already injected its Smart Compose for Google Docs in G Suite, as well as, oh, planting the dreaded autocorrect to Google Docs on the web.
Naturally,…