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From: raza@cs.hw.ac.uk (raz(a))
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: illiterate society
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Date: 1 Mar 90 16:55:28 GMT
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Speech synthesis systems are already with us and speech recognition is
improving all the time, within the next 100 years we can expect to see
the arrival of machines whose main communication medium is speech (or
iconic for the hearing impaired). Compare this with the advent of the
pocket calculator, this was heralded as the first step towards an 
innumerate society.

What is the likelyhood of these developments leading to a society that
is illiterate ? is it a bad thing ?  will this mean a reliance of our
society on this kind of technology ?
Raza Hussain                        janet : raza@uk.ac.hw.cs
computer science,                 arpanet : raza@cs.hw.ac.uk
heriot watt uni., Edinburgh          uucp : ..ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!raza