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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (44013)6/12/2000 4:15:00 AM
From: Dave B  Read Replies (3) of 93625
 
Jozef,

Some people who are computer illiterate (a shrinking minority) are looking to voice recognition to save them from their stupidity.

The best products work as we want to work, not make us work like they want to work. Someone doesn't need to understand how a car operates to operate a car, they just need to learn three or four basic input activities (brake, gas, steering wheel, and possibly clutch). Eventually they won't have to understand how a computer works (or have to learn how to type) to operate a computer. Just as there as specialists who design or repair cars, there will (continue to) be specialists who design or repair computers. The average person shouldn't have to become a computer geek to get their job done -- the computer should be just another tool that makes it easy to get their job done.

Someday, there will be better ways to interact with computers than keyboards or mice (voice, brainwaves, who knows?), but they'll definitely require more processing power.

Dave
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