BillG on Speech Recognition (last 10 years)
Matthew Paul Thomas has a list of public remarks on speech recognition by Bill Gates.
It's easy to pick on someone afterwards, so you might chuckle a little to hear some of the ways Bill has predicted the mainstreaming of speech.
We tend to overestimate technological progress in the shortrun and underestimate it in the long run. That rule applies here.
[pointed by Rob Chambers]