27 Jun
1998
27 Jun
'98
9:03 a.m.
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
BTW, I enjoy collecting over-hyped innovations that
never quite caught on
in the way they were supposed to: Bubbles. Pen-based computers. Touch
screens. Wireless networks. Bob. MSX. Robots. AI. Home automation.
The Z8000. The iAPX432. Parallel processing. Voice recognition.
What did I miss?
Its not what you missed, its what you included!
Voice recognition?? This is still evolving and has just become viable in
the last year or so. It works in a more than limited fashion, and is only
a few years away from being contrinuous without putting limitations on
how the speaker talks. Current state-of-the-art is speaker independent
with word dictionaries in the thousands to tens-of-thousands range. Right
now I'd say it is pretty much a reality. Check out the computer telephony
stuff.
Wireless networks exist today. Robots are in use in many applications in
many different fields. MSX was a standard that was around for a time in
Europe and Japan. Thankfully it didn't catch on in the U.S. or stick
around, but like CP/M it kinda faded. Home automation is an evolving art
as well. Voice activated home automation is here, but the good stuff is
still around the corner.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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