May 2000
Speech and Vision
For thousands of years, people have interacted through speech and gesture. Truly easy-to-use machines will do the same.
By Michael Dertouzos
After 40 years of humans serving computers, people are finally beginning to wake up and demand that the relationship be reversed: They want machines to become simpler, address human needs and help increase human productivity. That's as it should be. With computer technology maturing, it's high time, as we have repeatedly said in this column, for makers and users of computers to change their focus from machines to people.
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