I have little doubts decades from now I will still be mashing code on a keyboard. Maybe not a physical keyboard but something out of Tony Stark's lab.
The future of the human-computer interface?
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Re: The future of the human-computer interface?
#32Thought controlled word documents sound very unproductive, because the moment someone is watching I'm going to worry whether I'll accidentally think about a bunch of my secrets and it's immediately going to type that and what the secrets are, all because I was simply thinking about them at all.
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#33Anybody willing to take a bet that my keyboard is not going anywhere in my lifetime? The first time I was told that voice recognition is here and my keyboard is going away was about 20 years ago. Here I am today, still strangling to have Alexa understand simple commands. Thought controlled input? Forget about it in this lifetime.
If sub-vocal recognition [1] (together with suggestions) gets as good as voice recognition I think we could finally have a viable alternative to the keyboard.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition
Re: The future of the human-computer interface?
#34Anybody willing to take a bet that my keyboard is not going anywhere in my lifetime? The first time I was told that voice recognition is here and my keyboard is going away was about 20 years ago. Here I am today, still strangling to have Alexa understand simple commands. Thought controlled input? Forget about it in this lifetime.
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#35Anybody willing to take a bet that my keyboard is not going anywhere in my lifetime? The first time I was told that voice recognition is here and my keyboard is going away was about 20 years ago. Here I am today, still strangling to have Alexa understand simple commands. Thought controlled input? Forget about it in this lifetime.
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#36Anybody willing to take a bet that my keyboard is not going anywhere in my lifetime? The first time I was told that voice recognition is here and my keyboard is going away was about 20 years ago. Here I am today, still strangling to have Alexa understand simple commands. Thought controlled input? Forget about it in this lifetime.
How old are you? It’s really not that hard to imagine the keyboard being replaced by one, or a combination, of technologies in the next decade or two. Voice has gotten dramatically better in the past few years. Another decade? There are also gesture technologies: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0 Anyway, if you’ve got 3 or 4 decades of life, you still think we won’t have sufficient advances to replace the key…
I can't imagine what a replacement would look or behave like. You can replace your keyboard with almost anything that proxies human to computer, but nothing else is the same or as capable.
The radar video is impressive (as were Leap Motion videos, which didn't live up to the hype), and sure it makes sense for extending a watch or phone, but the problem with autocorrect and voice recognition and predictive keyboards and spell checkers is much of the time, I'm not writing clear, coherent, English sentences.
Sufficient advances to write foreign words and jargon and deliberate misspellings and usernames and hostnames and slang and quotes which are deliberately not spelled normally?
A lot of the claims about "you'll just think it" hide the reality - e.g. when I try to speak a password and I can't, because it's just a pattern of motion (and you can't escape this overall problem by saying you won't need passwords in the future).
Human hands are dextrous and sensitive, almost no other body parts are anything like as much - voice is laborious and prone to problems of pronunciation and tiredness and background noise and homonyms, anything else isn't going to come close until you can have brain surgery implants - and even then a) no thanks and b) I bet that still underestimates the complexity of reading clear intent.
Re: The future of the human-computer interface?
#37I'm calling bull. I would not trust some device to read my thoughts to write them to a Word document. Random thoughts are too uncontrollable. I would not trust my phone to connect automatically to any device, I see that's a huge risk. I would not trust my computer when I talk to it. Anyone can hear the conversation and it's disturbing in public spaces to other people. We saw this happen with Google Glass. People need…
I would love to be able to write code just with my thoughts. With the keyboard is not that bad, but in certain moments feels like the main bottleneck.
Switch to a more terse/dense/expressive language?
If you're typing filler, maybe the language is just wasting your time?