The Anthropocene…
I am thirty five years old, I have been a writer since I was nineteen. I was a bit of a late bloomer there owing to a birth defect that messed up my hands, amongst many other thing. I have wanted to be a writer since my earliest childhood memories, but my ability to practice the craft was starkly limited before dictation software got good. The history of dictation software goes back to 1992, a little company called Visioneer, which originally made scanners, purportedly made the first natural language processing software. the history of this branch of technology, is a bit murky however. The first dictation product that most people heard about was Dragon Dictate. Which appeared and either 1990 or 1992 depending on which source you trust. What is undisputed however is the fact that in 1992 a copy of Dragon Dictate would run you and astounding nine thousand dollars. Which according to the internet would be nearly twenty thousand today. This price would come down, so dramatically in fact…