BUSINESS REVIEW USA & CANADA
Google Now and Siri , designed to give us information we need without us having to ask . We have a growing ecosystem of natural controllers ; gesture control inputs like the Myo armband that read our muscles , voice control inputs that get more robust each year , and truly exotic inputs like the Muse headband designed to translate brainwaves into technology inputs .
Right now , we ’ re reaching a point where today ’ s technology has not yet realized its potential . Researchers have created a suite of astonishing technologies that break computing out of the old paradigm and release it into the air . Computers are all around us and connected , enabling interactions that would have been unimaginable in the heyday of the GUI .
What hasn ’ t caught up is our metaphor . We ’ re stuck in the office , thinking about computers in a way that limits their capability .
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