Things got quite Apple-centric near the end there. I don't doubt Apple has been responsible for a huge number of innovations recently in user interfaces, but th

Things got quite Apple-centric near the end there. I don't doubt Apple has been responsible for a huge number of innovations recently in user interfaces, but there's some notable omissions like gesture recognition and motion sensing (via the Wii and XBox 360), and crediting Siri with the invention or even popularization of speech recognition is one of the bigger stretches I've heard recently. Dragon Dictate would probably be a natural fit for an early popularizer of that technology.