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The end of typing? Why workers are suddenly ditching their keyboards

the Guardian·Guardian Staff·20 days ago
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Name: Voicepilled. Age: Reid Hoffman first declared himself “voicepilled” in the autumn of last year. Hoffman, rings a bell . Who is he ? A co-founder of LinkedIn, Manas AI and Inflection AI. Of course. Is he OK? Does he have a spot of laryngitis? On the contrary, he’s seeing things with a new mental clarity. Got it – as in The Matrix, red pills and blue pills leading to different ways of seeing the world? There you go! Actually, I still haven’t really got it. Voicepilled? What does it actually mean? “Being ‘voicepilled’ is that moment of realization that once you start seriously using your voice to interact with technology, you unlock a new way to amplify your ability,” Reid wrote in a LinkedIn post. “If you use products like Wispr or ChatGPT Voice, you know what I mean.” But I don’t. So I don’t. We’re talking about dictation as an alternative to using a keyboard, and how this results in an increase in productivity, given that you talk significantly faster than you type. Already tried it!…

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