Just saw an interesting blog entry on some trends regarding the Web found on mashable. I think a lot of what the article is talking about is very probable, and in some cases it is not rocket science to predict it, as some of it is in full swing already. There is one that will need a bit of work, however. The Voice-to-Text predictions. Apart from getting recognition correct, there is another more social challenge with it that might delay the "replace of the keyboard". The other day I was using my web cam with voice to colleage in the US, and I am actually sitting in an open space with colleagues. If I just imagine, that we all would be talking to your computers all day, distraction would be very large. The alternative is that everybody gets their quiet room, but the down-side would be another type of isolation. The interaction that we have on an ongoing basis face2face with each other is pure knowledge sharing at times. Dropping that by putting everybody in their own little room, so they can shout at their machines is just something I think might have a large cost with it.
But I don't want to limit myself in my thinking, there is probably a solution to that issue I am just not seeing yet. Maybe Maxwell Smart's "Cone of silence" is what we all need. Just saying there is a few more challenges ahead other than "voice recognition" for making "speaking to your machines" the standard procedure.
Would be very interested to hear about ideas that people have come up with to solve the "noise" issue in voice-to-machine interaction...
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