If you look at the human body as a machine we have several input and output devices. Our fastest input devices are our eyes and ears. Our fastest output devices are our fingers (physical movement) and speech. We currently use 3 of these four mediums already when interfacing with machines however our speech remains neglected.
The historical complications for a machine in dealing with slight variations in dialect have made this type of input more difficult than a mouse / keyboard combination and so we build to accommodate that interface but I believe we are selling ourselves short in the long run.
Imagine for a moment that in order to visit a website you had to first acquire the IP address from either the site owner or someone close to the site owner then save it off in your browser with a meaningful name to you like “Bill Parker Blog number 3”. That would be completely [...]
The quirky billionaire chairman of my company was on CNN Sunday discussing the best advice he had ever received. He reminded me that “A penny saved is a penny”
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