Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: They'll Look Like Toys? (Was: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: <1343@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 12 Jun 91 07:28:00 GMT References: <5068@orbit.cts.com> <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <#g1H3+$o@cs.psu.edu> <22340@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 43 In article <22340@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >In article caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) writes: >>In article <#g1H3+$o@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >>>You Amiga users are going to have to try and understand that the A3000 >>>is probably not the last computer that you are ever going to own, >>>In a couple of years(I say two) that A3000 is going to look like a toy. > >They aren't going to look like toys, and the reason for this is that computers >are catching up to humans. They have been for awhile, and they have a ways to >go, but they're getting close to being able to serve most people as well as >they need to be served. Human expectations about computers have been changing >over the years, but humans themselves haven't been. Well, but there are still goals. Only think about speech control/recognition. I think this will be one of the last steps in principal computer develop- ment. On the other hand I don't give much future to that Pad technology with handwriting recognition. I fear a normal keyboard serves you better and more comfortably, but this is a personal guess. But to implement things like speech recognition you will sure have to add some steps in processing power. And I fear you need big steps. The computers developped through this will sure let our today's ones look like toys. But I believe it will be more than 2 years, 5 at least. (Yes, I saw that IBM prototype in an AT on a fair, but it had a very limited vocabulary, still needed heavy training for the speaker, and I think the effort will increase exponentially when they're going to expand these mentioned limits.) > And at this point, just >about anyone can sit down and use a computer without knowing much about it. I >don't think we have much farther to go, any other major improvments are just >gravy. Hmm, see above. >At least until we get to the direct brain interface. Yes, that would be the next step. And the last will be that computers take over and integrate us into their brain. But I think I won't experience that... -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk