I see a great future for the technology now called “Texting”. Fairly soon, I predict that someone will invent a voice activated texting mode, so you can simply talk, and it will transcribe what you’ve said. After that will come the inevitable “Direct Texting” where your words, rather than being transcribed and sent to the receiver, will be sent as a recording to a “Voice Mail Box”, and the receiver will actually hear your message.
In the far distant future, I expect someone will invent a way for the text message to become an actual spoken conversation between two people in real time. I would call this innovation “two-way voice interaction”. Although the technology needed for this revolution does not yet exist, never underestimate the cleverness of mobile phone company R&D departments.
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…mmmbl…grbubrbl…mnt to th drctr…ziiuladr… damn. Keep getting error messages. This fool technology will never take off. bck 2 th drwng brd.
Geoff,
I was completely taken in by your entry.
Sometimes I have thought that “voice-activated texting” would be useful, so I read blithely through your entry as I imagined new technologies. I read all the way through “actual spoken conversation between two people” before I got the joke.
Then I laughed twice as much – I LOL’d and LOL’d again.
You are such a visionary. But without emoticons, how would someone know if you’re smiling or not
Vin – I’m so glad I caused laughter. It warms the cockles of my heart. Now I have warm cockles and they’re beginning to smell a little.
David,
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There is no hesitation about voice activated texting mode will come in future . But this is really tough because different humans speaking style is different .
i think that u have good ideas it’s just the last thing u said is basically what a phone call is “an actual spoken conversation between two people in real time”
Hi, Gaby, welcome to the site. Yes, that is what a phone call is. That’s the whole point. This is a humor site and this was a satirical piece about how silly texting is all around.