This post comes from my frustration that I cannot just talk to my computer and tell it what to blog, what photo to attach and what links to include in the post. If it were that easy, I'd be blogging all the time.
I do a much better job with my
Tweets, GTalk status,
GReader shared items and Facebook updates...but they're all forms of microblogging, which I consider to be a far from a 'rich experience'.
Which makes me hunger for the day when we have ubiquitous computing. We're far from it, however.
If I were to ever have grandkids (fat chance), they would look back at today and wondered how we were EVER content to let our fingers be the only interface point between human and computing device. I can just hear the riotous peals of laughter...
You mean you just TYPED!?!Yeah, we're slowly moving away from our reliance on typographical interface. The
iPhone is the most recognizable device capitalizing on tactile interface.
Jott,
Utterz and many other apps are trailblazing a parallel track with vocal interface in applications. (Of course, we all remember the granddaddy of speech recognition,
Dragon.)
But I'm ready for NOW. Anyone have suggestions?
For a vision of what the future of human-computer interaction may look like in 2020 and questions we need to be asking ourselves before we get there...read Microsoft Research's report, '
Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the Year 2020'.
