Future of Computers

Interesting column by Dvorak: The Next Great Breakthrough. He argues that the PC has stagnated; voice recognition seems further away now that it did in 1980; even OCR is really still not that good, not as good as humans. His criticism is good (except his 32 year cycle idea is just ridiculous). I’ve long thought we need real artificial intelligence to have good OCR and voice recognition. But AI is a looooong way away, if ever (we don’t even have artificial stupidity yet).His prediction is a non-prediciton–sounds like a horoscope, so vague. (Thanks to Paul Comeaux for the link.)

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1:00 am on January 5, 2005