Answering a 9 year old question

I wrote this post in August of 2017 on the growing adoption of smart home devices (Alexa, Google Home, etc.). And now I’m using Wispr Flow to make this post from my iPhone (which looks roughly the same as one from 2017 but has changed so much) and I find myself using voice much more than fingers to do my work of writing.

There will be a combination of voice AND augmented reality AND artificial intelligence that will power how we communicate with ourselves, our homes, our environments, and the people we love (and perhaps don’t love). In twenty years, will my young son be typing onto a keyboard in the same way I’m doing to compose this post? In ten years, will my 10-year-old daughter be typing onto a keyboard to do her job or express herself?

Voice Isn’t the Next Big Platform

My now 18 year old daughter does lots of voice transcription and my 10 year old son has no idea how to type on a keyboard (granted, most of that is bc of our parenting choices around screens and devices and his Montessori education).

Fun to dig up old questions and see where they land a few years later.