We rebuilt the typist

For most of a century we had the typist, the secretary, or executive assistant: someone sitting with a manager's dictation, holding all the context and the relationships in their head, cleaning up the sentences on the way, making the small diplomatic edits so the letter landed the way it was meant to.

==We've rebuilt the typist in a machine.== It takes our input, reformats it, sets it down. Same shape, different feel.

We gained something for one: no one's locked behind a typewriter now. And we lost something too: the person attuned to exactly who they were writing to, swapped for something that knows a lot of frameworks, a lot of half-facts, and almost nothing about the room you're actually in.