Yesterday I showed a demo to a colleague, in which I spoke to my web browser, and the text that I was speaking showed up in a 3D scene. He was astonished. His exact words were “That’s amazing!”<\/p>\n
A few minutes later I pointed out to him that both he and I do this all the time on our phones. We talk into them, and our speech gets converted immediately into text.<\/p>\n
“Oh, right,” he said. Until then he hadn’t made the connection. Seeing text show up in a 3D scene in a web browser in response to somebody talking at their computer was out of context, and therefore somehow startling.<\/p>\n
I wonder how often this happens to us in our lives. Something that in one context would seem perfectly prosaic, in a different context appears, at least at first, to be amazing.<\/p>\n
I am sure that it won’t come as a surprise if I tell you that I wrote this post by talking into my phone. Nothing really amazing about that these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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