I remember all that talk about the Internet breaking borders and democratizing the world. Has multitasking really faced pushback? I remember a lot of younger people bragging about how they would listen to youtube videos while watching a Netflix show and reading an article. It always sounded more like they processed everything by mentally skimming through the information they were getting.
A lot of tech hype for products that still don't exist. You'd hear a lot of people say they wouldn't need to learn a language because the technology to translate what you say as you speak is just around the corner. I've seen the attempts and they just make the conversation awkward.
The Obama years made a lot of liberals talk about how demographics were going to make Republican victory impossible.
Netflix was proof that digital distribution would kill cable and that we'd be watching Netflix shows without ever worrying about them turning into cable.
Bigotry would be nonexistent once Millennials grew up and became the majority. Still not holding my breath on that one.
You’d hear a lot of people say they wouldn’t need to learn a language because the technology to translate what you say as you speak is just around the corner. I’ve seen the attempts and they just make the conversation awkward.
A lot of the translation tools out there now are really good for signs and text online though. Like I can browse a Chinese website with incredible ease or take a pic of a sign and run it through a translator when I'm somewhere with a language I don't speak. Right now we're definitely in the gimmick phase of translating speech instantly, but I could very realistically see two people with translators up on their phones, speaking English or Chinese or something into it, and sending out a live text translation happening very soon, if not today already. Though if its already happening its probably a little gimmicky because most things still arent the best at recognizing different accents. You can definitely just open up a translator and ask them to type into it if you really need to.
I'm talking more about the seamlessness people want that I don't think is ever going to happen with the varieties of dialect and slang that gets made up. No translator is ever going to help me understand a Chilean.
It'll at best work great in situations like the UN or business meetings ,but I can't picture it working in a bar setting for example.
I remember being so excited for VR tech in the 90's. I'd walk into Toys R Us and see the latest "VR" game. Looking back the graphics were pretty choppy but I thought it couldn't get any more realistic than that at the time.
I remember all that talk about the Internet breaking borders and democratizing the world. Has multitasking really faced pushback? I remember a lot of younger people bragging about how they would listen to youtube videos while watching a Netflix show and reading an article. It always sounded more like they processed everything by mentally skimming through the information they were getting.
A lot of tech hype for products that still don't exist. You'd hear a lot of people say they wouldn't need to learn a language because the technology to translate what you say as you speak is just around the corner. I've seen the attempts and they just make the conversation awkward.
The Obama years made a lot of liberals talk about how demographics were going to make Republican victory impossible.
Netflix was proof that digital distribution would kill cable and that we'd be watching Netflix shows without ever worrying about them turning into cable.
Bigotry would be nonexistent once Millennials grew up and became the majority. Still not holding my breath on that one.
A lot of the translation tools out there now are really good for signs and text online though. Like I can browse a Chinese website with incredible ease or take a pic of a sign and run it through a translator when I'm somewhere with a language I don't speak. Right now we're definitely in the gimmick phase of translating speech instantly, but I could very realistically see two people with translators up on their phones, speaking English or Chinese or something into it, and sending out a live text translation happening very soon, if not today already. Though if its already happening its probably a little gimmicky because most things still arent the best at recognizing different accents. You can definitely just open up a translator and ask them to type into it if you really need to.
I'm talking more about the seamlessness people want that I don't think is ever going to happen with the varieties of dialect and slang that gets made up. No translator is ever going to help me understand a Chilean.
It'll at best work great in situations like the UN or business meetings ,but I can't picture it working in a bar setting for example.
That makes sense, but I think some people will learn to modify their language to be simpler for the translation's benefit.
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They were predicting the end of the Republican Party back in the Bill Clinton years. At least this time the libs learned better.
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if democrats were competent that would've been accurate.
They also did it during Wilson, FDR, and LBJ. Dems get way too excited every time their guy lasts over four years.
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I remember being so excited for VR tech in the 90's. I'd walk into Toys R Us and see the latest "VR" game. Looking back the graphics were pretty choppy but I thought it couldn't get any more realistic than that at the time.