I think I had already answered that same question. Lucky for me I don't and
never will work in a data farm. I think though you are being narrow minded
if you think it can't work. Maybe not yet for the data aspect.
Years ago I remember Microsoft pushing internet when not many had it. I said
what for, who needs it in windows and was quite irate on the subject. Now I
can't, like most people, live without it.
As for watches, I have not worn one for decades. Before cell phones had
them. I hate watches and I'm probably lucky that for the most I do not need
one. I am not sure where you are going with the people are idiots. That's
nothing new, even I bought a sheep ipad. I was going to try to get on the
bandwagon of programming it but time has not permitted it. Anyway I fail to
see why speech recognition is a fad. Unless you think it's a stop gap before
brain readers appear. And why has a conference hall lost its clocks :)
I do agree on the selling crap to idiots. Look how much junk there is on
ebay mainly from the far east. Assuming that if it's on ebay it will work
when you get it that is.
I don't think voice recognition is a fad, but its uses are limited. It's
not as fast and accurate as a keyboard operated by an expert typist, and
even if it becomes that good, it won't ever be practical in a cube farm.
Nor will it ever work for CAD-type stuff where images need to be
manipulated in precise ways. Consider how long it would take you to
verbally tell a computer to hook up visual component A to component B via
its left lateral axis as opposed to dragging and dropping it with a mouse.
Nor is it appropriate for any number of other applications. It's not even
that good for straight writing unless you're one of those rare people whose
dictated prose is actually better than, and not worse than, your written prose.
The general complaint I have about all this is:
The people out there who are saying that the desktop computer is dead, the
keyboard is dead--these are, overwhemingly, people who don't make their
living by using desktop computers and keyboards. If they had to make a
living primarily by constantly and quickly entering data into computers, it
would never occur to them to utter such asinine things.
And any doctor who proposes to diagnose people by staring at a 2" x 2"
image on his phone is going to find his in-box containing several orders of
magnitude more malpractice summonses than usual.
Even that old denizen of bridge cellars, Stephen, knows he's never going to
have to be confronted with typing one of his 300-line SQL expressions into
a cell phone with his thumbs. He's talking about soaking the suckers who
succumb to marketing and buy the latest toys.
You don't hear any secretaries or insurance claims adjusters or bank
tellers or materials engineers or medical billers or anybody who actually
has to work with computers on an intensive, ongoing basis claiming that
desktops and keyboards are dead.
The only people who talk about this stuff as if it were serious are moronic
hipsters who haven't used their iPad to do a lick of serious work since
they started shaving ten minutes ago, and marketing hypesters who are
trying to convince idiots to buy crap.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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