The male and female voices sound quite mechanical, but you can adjust the pitch and volume. Instantly, a rotating globe moves across the screen. We asked him to explain where natural computing is headed. People chain them-selves to a desktop PC to do word processing. But there are a dozen other ways in which we could control our computers, such as through eye movements or hand gestures.
People are already highly skilled at using speech and gestures to communicate with each other.
The goal is to enable people to use those same skills to communicate with their computers. The speech-recognition part is already here. Between 5 and 10 years from now, you won't even remember a time when your computer couldn't see or hear you. All you need is a computer with a video camera connected to it - and a little patience. It promises to let you play games without a joystick, open files without a mouse, and move around inside virtual rooms simply by pointing.