ABC Radio’s Future Tense explores voice technology with author Brian Christian:
[W]hat you find if you look the way that human conversation has been changing in the past ten years or so, a lot of our interaction happens over email, where we're not really interacting in real time, and I would also say that the shift in telephone technology from landlines to cellphones has had a kind of unforeseen trade-off, which is that we’re now much more accessible geographically, but the cost is that the lag on the connection is six times greater. So it’s about half of a second instead of a little bit less than a tenth of a second. And it may not seem like much, but in fact it is enough to disrupt a lot of the subtle dynamics of timing and pauses, and yielding to other people …
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