Once again we are at the crossroads of technology and its limits. In the future, you will talk to someone from a Moon base, but wait! … There will be a 3 second delay. The speed of light (or internet, telephony, messaging, video) is a huge barrier in space communications. Mars is 3 light minutes when closest and 16+ mins. when earth and mars are at the opposite ends of the sun.
So how do we carry a conversation?
Big pregnant pauses or … predictive speech?
Just like emails are now supported by automatic phrase extensions, we will upload our ‘type’ into the AI and they will carry on the conversation with us sending keywords intermittently. Speech will become this new habit we are unfamiliar with now. More on this later …
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