I understand how this may work for many people. It will not work for me. I never want my voice to be my primary computer interface. I'm a far more efficient typer than speaker, and my brain works differently when I'm typing.
My gut tells me we will just learn voice as a new way of interacting with machines. But certain types of interactions will tend to be better with a GUI, keyboard and mouse. Still early for us to see what patterns will really hold.
Peter, your distinction between the computer in our hands and the one that keeps working elsewhere makes this shift easy to see. On December 9, 1968, Douglas Engelbart and his SRI team brought the mouse, hypertext and live collaboration together in one networked demonstration. It showed a new way for people to direct computers. Your essay points to the next question: how much authority should a computer carry when we are not watching it?
A February 2026 draft NIST paper asks how software agents should be identified, authorized and audited, and how responsibility for their actions can be traced. Trust may depend on a simple mandate: what an agent may do, for how long, on whose behalf, and how permission can be withdrawn. Voice may become the interface. Could the more important product be the receipt showing exactly what power we delegated?
There's a good parallel in how customer support already made this jump. Companies like Intercom went from agents typing macros to agents supervising AI that drafts, and now to AI handling full conversations with humans just directing edge cases. Computing usage tends to follow that same three-step curve: manual, assisted, directed. Curious if you think the walking-and-talking workflow holds up for tasks that need visual reference, like reviewing a spreadsheet or a design mock, or if voice-first only works for pure text generation.
I agree, and I look forward to that day. Hostinger has special accounts just for Hermes and OpenClaw. Cloud computing extends everyone's available resources.
How long before we barely use a screen for most things?
I understand how this may work for many people. It will not work for me. I never want my voice to be my primary computer interface. I'm a far more efficient typer than speaker, and my brain works differently when I'm typing.
My gut tells me we will just learn voice as a new way of interacting with machines. But certain types of interactions will tend to be better with a GUI, keyboard and mouse. Still early for us to see what patterns will really hold.
Peter, your distinction between the computer in our hands and the one that keeps working elsewhere makes this shift easy to see. On December 9, 1968, Douglas Engelbart and his SRI team brought the mouse, hypertext and live collaboration together in one networked demonstration. It showed a new way for people to direct computers. Your essay points to the next question: how much authority should a computer carry when we are not watching it?
A February 2026 draft NIST paper asks how software agents should be identified, authorized and audited, and how responsibility for their actions can be traced. Trust may depend on a simple mandate: what an agent may do, for how long, on whose behalf, and how permission can be withdrawn. Voice may become the interface. Could the more important product be the receipt showing exactly what power we delegated?
There's a good parallel in how customer support already made this jump. Companies like Intercom went from agents typing macros to agents supervising AI that drafts, and now to AI handling full conversations with humans just directing edge cases. Computing usage tends to follow that same three-step curve: manual, assisted, directed. Curious if you think the walking-and-talking workflow holds up for tasks that need visual reference, like reviewing a spreadsheet or a design mock, or if voice-first only works for pure text generation.
I agree, and I look forward to that day. Hostinger has special accounts just for Hermes and OpenClaw. Cloud computing extends everyone's available resources.
Totally! Wisprflow + codex on a refurbished thinkcentre (at home) and codex on a Coder virtual machine at work has been game changing
I’m just waiting the ChatGPT version of Grok Bot… cmon guys
Yes!!! Wispr flow has literally changed my life! I use it across all channels 👏