One moral from all this, and which is important to keep in mind with the advent of speech research products and the multimedia associated with the Web, is that most of our cultural, political and business patrimony is still bound up with texts, from manuals for machines, to entertainment news to newspapers themselves. The text world is vast and growing exponentially: one should never be seduced by multi-media fun into thinking that texts and how to deal with them, how to extract their content, is just going to go away.