Subjective Morality

Voice to text is one of the many new features being touted by Google in its much-hyped Nexus One, but let’s take a breather here and just think about this scenario. Let’s say it’s the future, and everyone has voice-to-text on their phones. Let’s imagine that you and your friend are talking. You’re both using voice-to-text. Wouldn’t it be better to just call each other? Wouldn’t it?

Wouldn’t we all be better off if we just talked to each other like we used to? Back before texting and IMing and email? Wouldn’t it be better to have some sort of human interaction with each other rather than saying something into our phones and sending it off to be read?

Technology will progress, and there’s a good chance that in the future voice-to-text will be the dominant way that we communicate. Not likely, but it could still happen. And I can understand where voice-to-text could be great for those who are unable to type or have bad RSI or something, but for us normal folk who have perfectly working fingers, I don’t understand why’d we’d ever use it.