Not so Naturally Speaking

I'm glad I didn't pay the $100 for this gadget gone awry. Dragon Naturally Speaking is a speech recognition program that I'd hoped would help me get quotes out of books and into Word easier. Wasted hours of training it to listen to me, and $25 dollars later, I was breathing fire.

What a terrific idea...but not for the kinds of jargon I deal with using scholarly discourse. I suppose I could train it to learn words such as "rhizomatic," but I just don't have time to teach it to save me time....

So, is this technological determinism, that our gadgets control us?