Voice control - just more data or more human?


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Loving these stories of the hackers who have enabled Siri to control home heating and starting your car

So touch made computing human as we now all have stories of our kids swiping the TV in an attempt to change channel, but now voice control.  Voice control is not new (I worked on some code in 1988 for GEC Marconi for controlling Tanks), it has just not very reliable enough to make it easy.  If you are Indian, Scottish and probably many other national languages you will know all the problems.

However, in the world of voice control it is just another interface and it just more data – it is however more human.  But as a human we have actuators and sensors.  As of today we appear to be separating them in computing worlds and this will cause a problem.