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The prospect of escalating conflicts and tensions around the world, together
with the ongoing search for global peace, demand that we create technologies
which allow everyone to communicate with everyone else. Voice-in/voice-out
(VIVO) talking computers, using online voice-recognition technology, will
allow all people to access the world's storehouse of information merely by
speaking, listening, and viewing graphics."
"Jott™ is a revolutionary new service that automatically converts
your voice into e-mail and text messages-anytime, anywhere, with any
cell phone. Jott™ makes you more productive and efficient by capturing
your ideas, notes to self, tasks, and more without using your keypad."
Blog post describes two technology concepts for application in libraries including: "Imagine keyword searching through a book database, only the results
come back as a picture of library stacks where the book is highlighted
in context, where serendipity and browsing could happen." and "Another idea in the physical world would be to create rooms, about the
size of a study room, with walls with functionality similar to iPhone
screens where one could search either through voice recognition or via
wireless keyboards, then walk over to the wall of books, seeing
life-size images. Touch a book, and open it with an effect similar to
the Internet Archive's OpenLibrary page-turner, but using touch screen technology"