Re: Is this the future of Tech Comm?

[Jan Cohen <najnehoc -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Or (in response to the last question) simply:

"I'm afraid I can't do that."

jan c.
my mind is going.  I can feel it.

----- Original Message ----
Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote in part:
To: Techwriter List <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>; arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:07:22 PM
Subject: Is this the future of Tech Comm?

Arroxane reports: <<http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19403/? 
a=f    "A new company called Cognitive Code has built software that  
it believes will let everyday gadgets talk with humans." If this is  
what the future holds, what does that do to change Technical  
Communicators?>>

A scene from 10 years in our future:
Device: "Dave, I'm sorry, but I seem to have experienced an  
unrecoverable application error. Abort, retry, fail?"
Dave: "Huh? WTF? Speak English!"




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