Over at The Atlantic , Robert Rosenberger hasa absorbing and saucy pieceabout technology like Siri , which take interpreter bidding and turn it into textbook , and what kinds of effect they may have on how we compose .
As a writer who ’s being thinking a caboodle aboutfinding easier way to write while I have my CT hand out of commission , this is a issue I can really got on board with .
https://gizmodo.com/how-do-you-function-when-one-hand-is-out-of-commission-5928430
In the future , you will let the cat out of the bag to your computer . Voice , the predominant style of human - to - homo communication , has been migrating to silicon for more than a decade and is now poised to run into the mainstream .
Already , voice interfaces have become banal in the telephone set client - military service diligence , have long been of help to the unreasoning , and are progressively used by Doctor of the Church for transcribing patient information .
[ … ] So it seems as though our voice may some day displace our keyboards and computer mouse as the primary think through which we cook our computing devices . But while to command by vox is one matter , to write by vocalisation is another , and the question continue whether — or how — this displacement in engineering will shape the words we “ pen . ”
There are all manner of dictation tools to take from . Mountain Lion’shas been lauded by us already . Still , i find myself resisting the sort of service a virtual scriber like Siri or ML has to offer . It ’s not them , though . It ’s me . I compose slowly . I edit as a I go . ( # correction bullies , guard your tongues , please . ) I opine and edit and save and go back . I worry the applied science would be to frosty and spry for my style . That it would be too good .
https://gizmodo.com/talking-to-your-mac-the-coolest-feature-of-mountain-li-5925174
mayhap I ’m wrong . Maybe I ’ll terminate up get laid it . I ’ll give it a try , sure . possibly I ’m a little bit like the philosopher Martin Heidegger , who I ’ve also been mean a lot about lately , and who Rosenberger find to quote in his essay . Heidegger was quite fearful of the growing influence of the typewriter in the ’ 40 :
In the time of the first dominance of the typewriter , a letter written on this auto still bear for a breach of good manner . Today a hand - written letter is an antiquated and undesired thing ; it disturbs speed reading . Mechanical penning deprives the hired hand of its rank in the realm of the written watchword and degrades the Holy Scripture to a means of communication . In accession , mechanical piece of writing provides this “ advantage ” that it conceals the handwriting and thereby the reference . The typewriter makes everyone look the same .
Or Joan Didion ( who I always mean about ) , who feared she ’d never be able to drop a line again , when she first made the transition from typewriter to data processor .
I practice an IBM Thinkpad . I just use it like a typewriter , but when I set out using it in 1987 , I thought I wo n’t be able to publish anymore , so I thought I ’d go back to the typewriter . But you could n’t go back to the typewriter after using the reckoner , so finally after about a month I drive proficient enough that I could actually run on it without being distracted by it , and in fact then it started making me a whole raft more legitimate than I ever had been . Because the computing machine was so logical , it was always right , I was wrong … and the time bring through .
This piece is definitelyworth reading in its entirety , a glorious word of writer and their engineering science and our germinate attitude toward both .
This is n’t a # chat room , but let ’s keep the conversation fail anyway . I want to hear your opinion , too . [ TheAtlantic ]
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