A fascinating podcast that explores the dilemma of entering thousands of Chinese characters with the qwerty keyboard, and how its solution created a hero. It then ends on the eerie premise that predictive keyboards, when they get fast enough, can start to give you ideas you maybe weren't thinking of as you started to type. And in a Machiavellian subterfuge, influencing what you were about to write (and think.) That is, if there's a hidden agenda behind the words the computer suggests you might want to write, a government can influence your thinking, which the reporter emphatically believes is the case in China.
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