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When Kress mentioned "multimodality," voice-to-machine interaction, and other such interations, it made me think of all of the technologies that seemed so far away when growing up (watching The Jetsons...). I mention The Jetsons because just about everything you can think of from that show exists today -- minus the flying cars. There are toy robot dogs that respond to voice commands, telephones that know who you want call, and computer programs that know how to punctuation correct errors when you are typing/writing. I am not very good at grammar/punctuation, so, programs that help me are always nice except when I'm writing poetry. I prefer typing instead of writing by hand, but it gets old when Microsoft Office Word keeps capitalizing or deleting extra spaces when I specifically want them there. I can see what Kress is getting at when he says "white spaces and punctuation" have as much meaning as other symbols.