This type of technology sounds way too invasive. Are there no other ways of empowering people through technology without having to create such a ridiculous vulnerability and dependency on technology?
I remember he was talking about how inefficient it is to type. The pc had great bandwidth, phone has pathetic bandwidth. Presumably this increases bandwidth exponentially.
I don't think that it will speed up exponentially, as thought speed is (most of the time) at the speed of your 'inner voice', which (depending on the person) is only a few times normal speach speed, which can already be typed in real-time (e.g. stenographs, s2t engines).
It would help for symbols (e.g. "slash"("/") is a full syllable in speach, but might be part of the sentence structure in your 'inner voice' and therefore take less space, similar to the full stop), but the human mind can only produce so much output consciously, and I think we're only going to get up to a 10x speed increment.
I assume here that the norm is typing at roughly 130 keys/minute.
Yeah it was a great talk! Thousands of students waited for hours on the McGill campus to attend Snowden's talk -it's an important issue that a lot of people care about.
Interesting points you bring up. A point to consider is that many companies, even surprisingly many of the Fortune 500s, have very dedicated IT teams to support a web infrastructure, and so choose to make their applications using web frameworks to emulate native. I give you that it's not ideal, but when looking at the bigger picture, it just makes sense to use web rather than to force them to spend months getting ready for native support; so there might be a place for each use case.
