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TechnologyReview.com
Rethinking the Computer
By Lisa Scanlon July/August 2004
... In the future, members of Project Oxygen say, computing power will cost next to nothing. That means that computation-heavy technologies, such as vision systems and software that understands spoken requests, will be able to replace standard mouse-and-keyboard interfaces. "We have to extend the modality beyond pointing and clicking," says Victor Zue, ScD '76, codirector of the lab and-along with Anant Agarwal and Rodney Brooks-one of the leaders of Project Oxygen. Instead of being tethered to a desktop and other stand-alone devices, people should be able to interact with computers easily and naturally, from a distance, through conversation or gesture.
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