That time a rando told Thomas Edison that he should invent a speech-to-text engine
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3PYF0)
David Weinberger writes, "I just blogged about a 1911 letter in the Thomas Edison digital archive in which the former mayor of Kingston, Jamaica, proposed that Edison take his Gramophone one step further and invent a speech-to-text transcriber. Edison replied, albeit curtly." (more")