> I’m not entirely sure where this obsession with conversational interfaces comes from.
There's a very similar obsession with the idea that things should be visual instead of textual. We tend to end up back at text.
Personal suspicion for both is the media set a lot of people's expectations. They loudly talked to the computer in films like 2001 or Star Trek for drama reasons, and all the movie computers generally fancy visual interactions.
There's a very similar obsession with the idea that things should be visual instead of textual. We tend to end up back at text.
Personal suspicion for both is the media set a lot of people's expectations. They loudly talked to the computer in films like 2001 or Star Trek for drama reasons, and all the movie computers generally fancy visual interactions.