just wait and see

If you look at tech blogs long enough you stumble upon a heap of ideas that entrepreneurs and engineers are trying to build. Sometimes it is scary how advanced we actually are.

The words presented by the ReCaptcha validation tool used to be really easy to guess, but recently I have found myself often clicking for a new word because it literally is just scribble. The only conclusion is that optical character recognition software is reaching the point where words that can’t be recognised are actually illegible.

Similarly there are statistics that voice recognition software has accuracy ratings of nearly 99%.

So when I saw the kickstarter project for programmable lights I immediately thought that it would be cool to make all the lights in my house voice activated. The following thought I had was “Holy Crap this is the future” (my thoughts then trailed to the scene in I, Robot where Susan Calvin couldn’t work Will Smiths sound system because it wasn’t voice activated).

I can’t help but feel technology has sneaked up on us, it took 50 years or so to go from the Wright brothers plane to jet engines. What will be the next metaphorical jet engine to be perfected in 2060?