> It seems that if we ultimately want to "move at the speed of thought," it will require speech.
Except for the large majority of people who read, type, and click way faster than they can talk. Especially for visual things it’s way faster to drag a rectangle than to describe what you want.
A lot of us also aren’t linear verbal thinkers. It would take minutes to hours to verbalize concepts we can grasp visually/schematically in seconds.
Most people speak at about 150 wpm, but very few can type that fast. But reading and gesturing are fast, which is what TFA is about, combining reading and gesturing with speech.
You rarely need 150wpm when typing. If you try dictation, you’ll notice that half those words are error correction and checksum bits and just turn taking filler.
I usually convey the same meaning with 80wpm typing. Makes it faster to read too
Maybe I’m just slightly adhd – listening to people talk drives my crazy. Get to the point! Much easier if they type it out
> It seems that if we ultimately want to "move at the speed of thought," it will require speech.
Except for the large majority of people who read, type, and click way faster than they can talk. Especially for visual things it’s way faster to drag a rectangle than to describe what you want.
A lot of us also aren’t linear verbal thinkers. It would take minutes to hours to verbalize concepts we can grasp visually/schematically in seconds.
Great book on the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60149558-visual-thinking
Most people speak at about 150 wpm, but very few can type that fast. But reading and gesturing are fast, which is what TFA is about, combining reading and gesturing with speech.
You rarely need 150wpm when typing. If you try dictation, you’ll notice that half those words are error correction and checksum bits and just turn taking filler.
I usually convey the same meaning with 80wpm typing. Makes it faster to read too
Maybe I’m just slightly adhd – listening to people talk drives my crazy. Get to the point! Much easier if they type it out
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There's the adage that writing is thinking, but even more accurately at least for me, editing is thinking.
Neither typing speed nor dictation speed is a true bottleneck, but editing speech seems like it'd be harder than editing text.
Though there may be some hybrid approach that can work well.
> editing is thinking.
I hadn’t realized until just now how accurate that is for me as well. Thank you.