The article sorta touches on it, smartphones really took off after the touch screen had time to be made cheaply (it may have been the catalyst for it, chicken and egg sorta thing) with Moore’s law is just chugging away in the background. I think the tech revolution these companies want to be the forefront of isnt a device or program, its going to be a user interface.
Think of how the command density changed from dial pads to the first iPhone. Imagine what happens when we find a genuine inprovment for keyboards or the touch screen.
I thought voice might take off more, though Alexa and Siri are popular. Maybe it just isn’t efficient enough for large amounts of information.
I have worked with too many people using screen sharing and voice. It can be very frustrating with the “no, not that file! The other one on the left.” And right now it’s already busy enough with people having meetings in landscape offices or calls on the bus. Imagine if everyone would be talking to their phone or computer the entire time. Maybe when there are easy to use throat microphones and an AI that knows what you want with half a word.
Smart glasses as display-only don’t get enough love as a concept. You can already buy these, although birdbath displays have the weakness of being visible from outside as well.
The other stuff is still pretty speculative, I don’t see any reason the technology is all that much closer when it comes to reading minds or reliably interpreting complex spoken instructions. Sure, smart phones are all the same, but they’ve been that way stably for many years now. Ditto for cars and mops and any number of other things.
Those glasses can be made to prescription too, that’s neat
