By: Tabitha Miller
June 18, 2018
Fear not, in 2025 you’ll get one when the keyboard becomes obsolete and your voice takes over.
At least this was the prediction of a technologist I interviewed last week, who made the point that voice recognition is going to transform the way we communicate.
Indeed, think of this. Your keyboard could be well on the way to becoming a retro party piece for future generations to marvel at – in the same way that today’s hipsters rejoice as they dust off dad’s vinyl collection.
Yet, when technology gives, it has a habit of taking away. Time-consuming typing goes, but what else goes with it? Well, jobs will change – and radically.
This was all part of the contemplative air that settled on this year’s gathering at London Tech Week.
The headwinds of public scrutiny are hitting home, and it’s even got a portmanteau – so you know it’s serious. It’s called techlash, and fear of its landing abounds in the tech community. Don’t let the name fool you, it’s not a big night out in a Shoreditch boozer, but rather what many see as the impending rite of passage that the maturing sector must go through.