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Spell-checking the Futr

Duration: 10 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Self-confessed "digi-drunkard" Will Self on predictive texting, spellchecking and algorithms.

Will tries to convince himself - and us - that his use of technology is considered and practical, not the "glug-glugging of the cyber sozzled"!

But, he admits, "a great river of denial runs through me...as I fidget and tweezer my way through the glassy looking-glass and into the virtual world".

Producer: Adele Armstrong. Show less

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