I hope that this vision, embodied in Oxygen and other systems like it, will help us break away from our 40-year machine preoccupation to a new era of people-oriented computing. And as we focus our technologies increasingly on human needs, perhaps we can make a bigger wish for the future. The first three socioeconomic revolutions were all based on things—the plow for the agrarian revolution, the motor for the industrial revolution and the computer for the information revolution. Perhaps the time has come for the world to consider a fourth revolution, aimed no longer at objects but at understanding the most precious resource on earth—ourselves.

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1. 1. eco-steve 01:33 AM 3/20/09

   I see that speech recognition is quoted to be the only new technological breakthrough expected. So since 1999 nothing much has been achieved, as we still don't even have any decent translation programs.
   What about the internet?

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