[dclowd9901]

> In the next five years, this will change completely. You won’t have to use different apps for different tasks. You’ll simply tell your device, in everyday language, what you want to do.

This kind of thinking, to me, smacks of the kind of ignorant projections people used to make in the early 20th century about technology in the 21st century.

“Robotics will advance, so everyone will have their own personal robot assistant!” Nope, though we do have robots doing things that are commensurate with their cost and the value they provide.

“Advances in aviation mean everyone will have a flying car.” Nope again. Turns out the added utility of being able to fly directly to places vs the cost doesn’t trump a car in most cases, and when those cases don’t apply, airplanes are plenty economical.

“You’ll just tell your device what you want to do.” No again. In some cases this is useful (I already tell my device to remind me about something or to schedule some sort of event on my calendar, where the time to input far exceeds speaking it), but in most cases, I can do it faster myself with a good UI, or maybe I don’t want everyone around me hearing me blather into my phone.

It’s like, just imagine for a second what it would be like to have to dictate everything you do on your phone. It would be utterly exhausting.