A few weeks ago, I was in the elevator with my friend [name]. He was just going up to see his boss, but I was already at my floor.

"Hey," he said, "I'm going to see my boss. Want to come?"

"Sure," I said. We got off on the same floor and walked over to his office together. He knocked on the door, and after a moment someone answered. "Come on in!" she said.

We went inside and sat down at her desk, where she introduced herself as [name]. She told us about how she'd started working for [company name], and then she started talking about her job: "I'm working on this new software that will allow people to order food online by texting their phone number." She pointed out some of the features they'd been working on: "It'll have a GPS feature so that you can order from anywhere in town without having to go through all those steps again!" And then she asked us what we thought of it so far.

I told her it sounded amazing! And then I told her about how much time I'd saved using text-to-speech technology—the computer software that reads out loud everything you type into your phone or