Anyone who likes to text is probably familiar with “predicative text”—you start typing a word and the phone guesses what you’re trying to say so you don’t have to type the whole thing and you can go on to the next word. Saves my thumbs some effort on my blackberry. Pretty neat. I’ve always wondered how it worked as it seems to always know the word I want to type but on second thought, maybe it’s really influencing what and how I am saying and I would have said something different had it not suggested that word. Hrmmm… Here’s an example: