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>>used by the wearable computing people, circa turn of the century

One of the things they discovered, is voice command really wasn't suited to a wearable as it was distracting in meetings, susceptible to background noise, made you look like you were talking to yourself, etc.

One of my favorite BoFH style stories was of someone that worked in an office where each PC was equipped with dragon naturally speaking. Apparently, you could walk thru the office yelling "format c:" <pause> "yes"....



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