Ray Kurzweil

By 2009 most text will be created by speaking (speech recognition) rather than typing.

“Keyboards still exist, but most textual language is created by speaking.”

Said on

1 January 1999 · Prediction for 2009 (education section) from The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), as quoted in his 2010 self-review "How My Predictions Are Faring".

Source

How My Predictions Are Faring (October 2010) · The Kurzweil Library

Should come true

2009

How sure they sounded

none (stated as fact about 2009)

Categories

Technology

Importance

2 of 5 · Would reshape the computer input and speech-recognition field.

Outcome

Inaccurate

In his own 2010 review Kurzweil grades this prediction "Wrong": voice dictation was common by 2009, but most text was still typed. Keyboards and touchscreens stayed the main way people created text.

Evidence:

• https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/images/How-My-Predictions-Are-Faring.pdf