In the future, you'll use a speech-based interface to access all the world's knowledge – including your own personal memories – stored in the cloud, according to a legendary engineer who was a member of the team that designed Apple's original Macintosh user interface. "More and more people have smartphones in their pockets …

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Thursday 27th January 2011 14:16 GMT TheOtherHobbbes

Wait, what?

He thinks *banks* are still going to be around when this happens?

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Thursday 27th January 2011 16:49 GMT Michael C

Screw flying cars...

I want a librarian, ala "Snow Crash."

Not just find what I'm asking for, but act on it, and present the data the way I want to see it, and adaptively.

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1. Thursday 27th January 2011 21:35 GMT Baskitcaise
  
  I want a librarian,
  
  Ook!
  
  Troll?
  
  Nearest I could get to a monk....... beep......[NO CARRIER]
  
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Thursday 27th January 2011 16:57 GMT Dave Murray

Speech interfaces? Again?

I thought everyone that doesn't write for Star Trek had realised by now that speech interfaces don't work and are not the future of computer interfaces. How is it supposed to cope with several people in the same room, some of them talking, one of them using the computer and a TV on in the background? Noisy environments like a train? Or regional accents?

Add in the fact that for those of us who can type it will be slow as hell and all you have is another failed 70s dream.

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1. Thursday 27th January 2011 22:32 GMT Oninoshiko
  
  Even star trek....
  
  had various forms of keypads all over the place (hell IIRC they had one on every wall), sometimes it's just more effecent.
  
  But, presumeably it would apply some type of noise filter (what, they dont have magic noise filters? but it HAS to be true! I saw it on TV)
  
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Thursday 27th January 2011 21:36 GMT Anonymous Coward

Oh Shite ...

Dealing with people on an everyday basis is getting increasingly more and more difficult today because it is becoming utterly impossible to drag them away from their FaceFuck or iPhone obsession/addiction as it is. Trying to keep on message and remind the fuckwits why you are there (on billed time) is in itself a full-time job.

This will spell the end of human society and civilisation completely.

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