Typing messages? Maybe, maybe not. I wasn’t talking about only messages. I think you originally said in 20 years “typing” would be over. I didn’t think you meant ONLY for text messages.
Even so, I can absolutely imagine some people still sending text messages 20 (or more) years from now - if the technology is still available, which is of course the big “if” and maybe that aspect is the crux of what you’re “guaranteeing.”
If your contention is that speech recog. (or similar) will completely obliterate the entire industry, not just phones but any other way people send “text messages” (including online IM’ing), I guess you could be right. I mean, some kinds of cell phones that used to exist are not available at all for purchase now. So I suppose it’s conceivable that at some point it won’t be *possible *to text message (or text-chat) anywhere even if someone wanted to.
As others have observed, though they’re fewer in number than before, there are still plenty of people who still text-chat online and, maybe more to the point for what you’re suggesting, who prefer the tactile experience of typing. As long as there is the capability, I suspect this type of person would always opt to type regardless of what newer technology may emerge, 20 years from now or whenever else.
There may well come a time when typing is just not an available option in any medium or platform. Personally, I do not believe that’ll happen within 20 years. The majority of users choosing to use some other then-available method rather than typing by then? Could be.
I answer the phone for a living. I talk to dozens of people every day at work. On my own free time? There are literally only three people I will pick up the phone for. If you want to communicate with me, send a text. I will not. WILL. NOT. Be answering or returning your call. Fuck that, unless you are one of those three people.
I have been known to surreptitiously send a text during a meeting to get a piece of information quickly without disrupting the meeting. There is nothing speech-driven that can replace that. I think the ability to send a short text message will remain a valid need.
In twenty years Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia will have total control of all our communications. What we use to do that will not be very interesting compared with the bombs.
Texting has been around for a very, very, very long time. It’s just gotten faster a few times, with inventions like the telegraph and cell phones. It will still be around in some form, but it will seem primitive to some degree compared to what we do now.
Absolutely agreed. I mean, unless we come up with some mind-reading technology, communicating by entering text into our phones or whatever mobile devices we’re using then is going to be necessary.
I don’t want a chip in my head until they at least figure out how to make the phone in my hand a *lot *more reliable. The last thing I need is a lockscreen security bug or a system hang error on a piece of hardware connected directly to my wetware.
Texting is a pain in the ass but if they dont want to answer the phone…the text goes thru for sure unless they have your number blocked
Maybe I should have used the word “dinosaurs” Land lines are there a lot for old people who dont like change…but they are dinosaurs too. Neither are reliable too. Neither perfect at all
Because of the imperfections of the cell phone I am not that happy with them. I dont have a land line anymore. Some calls need to be on land lines
Is it the millennials or the ones called “the do nothing generation” that text all the time? Will there come a time when they get married and text their vows? Everyone watching will text there emoticons, etc? What about tears? Yes there are indeed tear type emoticons and just about if not all emotions emoticons needed in life!