Language Magazine – Daniel Ward
“Now that we’re about 25 years into the communication revolution and artificial intelligence has become the focus of the technology sector, predictions abound that faultless automated translation and interpretation systems will soon obviate the need to speak different languages and voice recognition technology will replace the tasks of typing, writing, and even reading. No doubt these technological innovations are enhancing our communicative capacities, but our human desire to communicate is too strong to permit us to give up personal avenues of socialization, so they should be seen as additional means of communication rather than replacements for direct human interaction.” (more)