I get why someone would think that speech is going to be more widely used: the computing world is moving to devices - phones and tablets - that are awkward to type on. Wearables (if they ever become a big thing) won't usually have a keyboard at all. I don't really see why picture searches would be that big.
I think it depends on how we define what a 'search' is exactly. When you wear a future Google Glass and it's discovering that you're drinking an iced coffee instead of a regular coffee, did it do that by searching? If so, did it do 100 'searches' to discover this fact, where a search is a really an image search of static frames from your vision?
Or is a 'search' something that a person dictates to a computer to answer a question?
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I get why someone would think that speech is going to be more widely used: the computing world is moving to devices - phones and tablets - that are awkward to type on. Wearables (if they ever become a big thing) won't usually have a keyboard at all. I don't really see why picture searches would be that big.
I think it depends on how we define what a 'search' is exactly. When you wear a future Google Glass and it's discovering that you're drinking an iced coffee instead of a regular coffee, did it do that by searching? If so, did it do 100 'searches' to discover this fact, where a search is a really an image search of static frames from your vision?
Or is a 'search' something that a person dictates to a computer to answer a question?