I came to the conclusion that we need a completely new language, a new communication paradigm. We can't continue to build single-purpose apps for every single thing. We need a single interface that's general-purpose enough to let people communicate what would today take 1000 different apps (or 1 natural language).
I believe that the future of UI will be a mix of task management concepts (to-dos, task dependencies, task delegation, timelines) and binary interaction (Akinator, Tinder, Mechanical Turk). Add a graph knowledge base, a blockchain, a network of trust, smart contracts and you're set.
I've been trying to start a discussion about this for years, without success. If anyone is interested in discussing this space, I encourage you to let me know.
Aren't those things voice/language processing aim to solve? That is to liberate the user from the device/interface and let ask for - as we typically do human to human - what then want and need? And voice to VR and many things change. Some, perhaps, not for the better. Welcome to The Matrix?
Natural language interfaces are horrible. I don't know what people doing voice recognition and language processing are thinking. This is extremely short-sighted, and doomed to fail.
I'm thinking about a completely new communication paradigm, one that's short of a brain interface.
Perhaps. Which I think is why brain interface is the Holy Grail. No typing/touch. No vox. Just think it.
p.s. Natural language is still in it's early stages. Think of the early (non UI) PCs. That is, over time voice as an interface will get better, and better. It will get there. Just not yet.
I came to the conclusion that we need a completely new language, a new communication paradigm. We can't continue to build single-purpose apps for every single thing. We need a single interface that's general-purpose enough to let people communicate what would today take 1000 different apps (or 1 natural language).
I believe that the future of UI will be a mix of task management concepts (to-dos, task dependencies, task delegation, timelines) and binary interaction (Akinator, Tinder, Mechanical Turk). Add a graph knowledge base, a blockchain, a network of trust, smart contracts and you're set.
I've been trying to start a discussion about this for years, without success. If anyone is interested in discussing this space, I encourage you to let me know.