• @vacuumflower
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    310 months ago

    Well, wouldn’t that also require manufacturing a unique device for every person using it? In case it becomes commercial.

    • just another dev
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      10 months ago

      It’s been a few years since I last read it, but from what I recall the devices themselves can be pretty much the same, but it might vary where exactly they “plug in”. Also each individual user will have to learn how to use the device. That knowledge gap is supposed to decrease as the technology improves.

      Initially it will be used to improve the lives of people with disabilities, but eventually it will be used for direct communication and beyond. For starters, it took me a few minutes to type out this response on my phone, being bottlenecked by my fingers and SwiftKeys insistence that I meant different words. If I could just “think” the words directly into the input fortis field, it would have been much faster.

      • @vacuumflower
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        210 months ago

        It would be even faster if you’d use a keyboard on a PDA from early zeroes.

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          10 months ago

          Faster than 1 finger swiping, yes. But not faster than I can think the words.

      • snooggums
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        210 months ago

        Imagine how much worse the internet will be when content is created at the speed of everyone’s thoughts and not even even the slightest moment to be rethought as they are typed.

        • just another dev
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          510 months ago

          Have you every looked at YouTube comments? The difference might be smaller than you think.