LOOOL
But I edited it to look a man-made. :)
Please re-read it again.
Please re-read it again.
(This is an open offer to anybody: if you are the first person with your model of phone to email me, I will give you a free license if/when it works on your phone. Also notice how spammy this comment is.)
That's kind of a joke, but kind of serious too -- the entire idea of CAPTCHA is going to have to evolve in quite meaningful ways.
I liked your thesis, as speculative as it was. My general impression is that we're talking decades here, not years. Predicting out that far is always tricky. One can imagine receiving phone calls from friends -- the friends being electronically generated voice impressions of our real friends that try to sell us things. Once you start down this path of faking a person, you're going to end up in some very weird places. For instance, I could create "fake mes" that would interact on the web as well, creating blogs, commenting on articles, documenting a presence -- all for the purpose of leaving a bad trail for spambots to follow.