The Curious Power of Punctuation

The New Yorker 

Commas, dashes, semicolons, and spaces have shaped how we read for centuries. What happens when machines start crafting the sentences? Her editors may have applied the commas we now think of as unmistakably Austenian. Do you know the first sentence of " Pride and Prejudice "? You probably think you do, but I bet you don't. The answer is "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Did you remember to put in the commas?