tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post7914442892647832906..comments2024-01-23T16:53:02.428+00:00Comments on Mark Thompson: Where will technology have taken us by 2037?Mark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-11420028496057932782010-06-21T16:06:26.420+01:002010-06-21T16:06:26.420+01:00However if you show a 9 year old an iPhone now the...However if you show a 9 year old an iPhone now they just shrug and say "youtube's a bit slow"... :)Steve Borthwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13361597018502017407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-71938584722155240812010-06-21T12:49:09.285+01:002010-06-21T12:49:09.285+01:00Are you receiving a fee from Apple regarding your ...Are you receiving a fee from Apple regarding your constant plugging of its iphone? As you probably know, the technological revolution has largely passed me by. I still view pc's and mobile phones as necessary evils!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17952408272051293948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-91629700607342424942010-06-21T08:57:26.525+01:002010-06-21T08:57:26.525+01:00Mark, so nice to hear something positive being wri...Mark, so nice to hear something positive being written about the times we are in. I find it amazing that devices are taken for granted when they are so powerful these days.<br />This was a lovely article to read on a Monday morning when everyone else seems to be talking about BP, budgets, Fabio's England and all the other nasties in the worldPaul Seymournoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-83546165098397647692010-06-20T18:49:11.552+01:002010-06-20T18:49:11.552+01:00Fun thought experiment, but...
I also expect voic...Fun thought experiment, but...<br /><br /><i>I also expect voice recognition and synthesis to have evolved to the point where input devices such as keyboards are largely obsolete. I would still expect mice and touchscreens to be used though as there are some things that voice recognition will not be able to replace. However linked in with an earlier point, depending on how far the devices can be augmented with the human body they may be able to be controlled with the power of the mind alone. Scary but also very exciting.</i><br /><br />I suppose the control-by-mind scheme might answer my point, but in the absence of that I don't see keyboards going anywhere. I can potentially see them being replaced by keyboard sized (or larger) touch panels (think Star Trek TNG, et seq). There are 3 problems with voice control that I can see; one is that it isn't private (contra Star Trek, I don't see people wanting to shout out their passwords, even with voice prints), the second is that it is intrusive (it is one thing to dictate a log in your private ready room, it is quite another to write a presentation in a room with 30 other people), the third is that I can't see it lending itself to certain complex tasks (do you want to dictate a C++ program or, $deity preserve us, something in Haskell? I sure as hell don't).<br /><br />I make no apologies for the frequent Star Trek references - I think the Star Trek TNG, DS9, Voyager era model of voice control is the more likely than replacing keyboards in their entirety.JonoPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03433240398536413440noreply@blogger.com