From Spellcheck to Ambient AI: Why the Best Tech Eventually Disappears

The assimilation of spellcheck freed us to focus on ideas instead of i-before-e.

This issue of Social Signals was written to You’ve Been Spiked by Chris Joss.

Hello from the South Shore of Lake Superior (aka the northernmost part of Wisconsin), where I rented an artist’s studio on a cliff overlooking the largest freshwater lake in the world for a week away from roofing solicitors, good wifi, and well.. noise.

I read books and drank …