http://www.amazon.com/Business-2010-Mapping-Commercial-Landscape/dp/1844390004
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/05/12/visionary.pearson/

""de-skilling" of many professions, such as medicine, law, and management. All these tasks can be done more cheaply and reliably by software."

Google phone around April 2008;

"The "Shabette Hon-yaku" automatic translation capability using a voice recognition system has also been added to the 905i series handsets. If you speak a phrase that you want translated while talking on the phone, a translation will be displayed on the screen after a few seconds. The 905i handsets support translation from Japanese to English and from English to Japanese."

http://pspupdates.qj.net/Hands-on-Sony-PSP-Talkman-Translate-Speak-Learn-English-Japanese-Chinese-Korean/pg/49/aid/8676

"Windows Vista Chinese and English synthesizer, Lili"