The Future is Spelled Autocorrectocracy

A specter is haunting cyberspace-the specter of autocorrectocracy. All the powers of big tech have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise typos, misspellings and other errors in real time, as they occur, at every keyboard and touchscreen within reach.

As I write these words (with apologies to Karl Marx for the intro), Microsoft Word is scrutinizing and tweaking them. Word software arrived in 1983, the demon spawn of a young Bill Gates and an unchaperoned English language. Word grew to dominate the typing and printing of English in digital form, and today…