Editing Autocomplete (section)

== History ==
The autocomplete and predictive text technology was invented by Chinese scientists and linguists in the 1950s to solve the input inefficiency of the [[Chinese typewriter]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://phys.org/news/2012-11-chinese-typewriter-text-historian.html |title=Chinese typewriter anticipated predictive text, finds historian |date=12 November 2012 |first=Max |last=Mcclure }}</ref> as the typing process involved finding and selecting thousands of [[Chinese characters|logographic characters]] on a tray,<ref name=Sorrel2009>{{cite web|title=How it Works: The Chinese Typewriter|first=Charlie |last=Sorrel |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |url=https://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/02/how-it-works-ch/ |date=February 23, 2009 }}</ref> drastically slowing down the word processing speed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23231041-000-typecast/ |title=Why predictive text is making you forget how to write |date=14 December 2016 |website=New Scientist |first=Veronique |last=Greenwood }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/how-this-decades-old-technology-ushered-in-predictive-text |title=How This Decades-Old Technology Ushered In Predictive Text |website=Buzzfeed |date=16 August 2016 |first=Caroline |last=O'Donovan }}</ref>

In the 1950s, typists came to rearrange the character layout from the standard dictionary layout to groups of common words and phrases.<ref name="Mullaney2018">{{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/16/1-billion-people-100000-characters-1-typewriter-chinese/|title=90,000 Characters on 1 Keyboard|last1=Mullaney|first1=Thomas S.|date=2018-07-16|website=Foreign Policy|access-date=25 April 2020}}</ref> Chinese typewriter engineers innovated mechanisms to access common characters accessible at the fastest speed possible by [[word prediction]], a technique used today in [[Chinese input methods for computers]], and in text messaging in many languages. According to [[Stanford University]] historian Thomas Mullaney, the development of modern Chinese typewriters from the 1960s to 1970s influenced the development of modern computer word processors and affected the development of computers themselves.<ref name=Stanford2010>{{citation|title=Featured Research – world's first history of the Chinese typewriter|publisher=Humanities at Stanford |url=https://shc.stanford.edu/stanford-humanities-center/news/featured-research-worlds-first-history-chinese-typewriter |date=January 2, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Sorrel2009"/><ref name="Mullaney2018" />