Predictive Technology (part 1)

Predictive technology/analytics is slowly infiltrating our lives and has been for years. How many times have you been typing in a word processor, an email, or even on your smart phone when the word you were typing auto-completes? Sometimes this can be helpful, but most often, it becomes extremely annoying and you have to try to mess with the program you're using to turn auto-correct off. Some interfaces are rather slow, so when a list of likely words appears, it can be more efficient to pick the intended word instead of finishing the input process. But after selecting that word, new words suddenly appear to choose from, and often, the next word the user was going to type is among them. Entire sentences can be inputted this way, and the more you use that program, the better it gets at "learning" what you want to say. It is disturbing to consider that these programs are not nearly as developed as the far more robust versions that are already being used by our government and the military. What will we be seeing as commonplace in the next five to ten years? Imagine a form of short-hand writing where you only need to type in a couple words and your sentence will be finished for you!