Thanks. I'll probably steer clear of chat programs entirely as I just don't know how I could have time for them. It's for the same reason that I never built that computer I've been saving for for years. What am I going to do with a faster computer? Play video games? When?
That's really creepy about the voice recognition. I guess it's pretty trivial now for computers to parse speech into text and analyze it. But good lord. Even the Stasi had to make someone sit down and listen to the tapes if they wanted to know what people were saying.