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People also forget that vocal communication is "imprecise and slow". Even with the most powerful AI on the planet--other humans.

I can go through your crappy PowerPoint deck in 5 minutes, or I can listen to you drone on badly for 60 minutes.

I ban PowerPoint from meetings where I need communication to occur explicitly because of this. Of course, if we're just "flying the colors" for management, then PowerPoint is required.

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> People also forget that vocal communication is "imprecise and slow". Even with the most powerful AI on the planet--other humans.

This.

It drives me nuts that some people still think a voice recognition interface -- even if that's at all possible in the more general case -- is necessarily the best UI. Or gestures. Look, in a lot of cases I wouldn't want to have a person listening to me while I explain what I want done as I wave frantically. Humans are notoriously bad at understanding some sorts of instructions. Why would I want to introduce this ambiguity to my computer?

True, communicating thoughts vocally is imprecise and slow. But hearing does have some more parallell-ness in a sense. A fire alarm is a good interface to alert to a fire. It is still in the background, and you can talk to someone over it, but you are constantly aware of it.

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