> Without it, we probably couldn't even have phones that look anything like the ingots we tickle—the whole notion of touchscreen typing, where our podgy physica

> Without it, we probably couldn't even have phones that look anything like the ingots we tickle—the whole notion of touchscreen typing, where our podgy physical fingers are expected to land with precision on tiny virtual keys, is viable only when we have some serious software to tidy up after us. This is a nice dramatic sounding intro, but it is really exaggerated. Along the lines of "Nobody can survive without social media in the modern world". Of course you can live without it. Stop trying to inflate a minor inconvenience that you can get used to to "impossible". I never had autocorrect and I recently found the option to switch of the "suggestions" in the top bar of my phone keyboard. It is heaven. Sure, I have to spend some time fixing my typos, but it's way faster than to fix a completely wrong suggested word that I accidentally touched.