> Twain’s vision of hundreds of thousands of human-like language machines taking over the world would have to wait a century or two. (...)

> I’d argue that there’s a clear line connecting the automation of typesetting and counting in the late 19th century to the rise of electrical computers a generation later, and then the early Internet and AI research a generation after that. (...)

> I think there are three transferrable lessons we can pull from this story: (...)