Right, just like the PC was going to be obsolete by the year 2000 because of wearables.
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From my cold, dead hands.
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So a computer that takes much longer to communicate with, will wear out your voice by the end of the day, be difficult to use at home, and make an office even more of a noisy hell. All for the low price of one environment. Sounds great, except it seems to be predicated on having “unlimited compute in the form of quantum”, which means this pointless dystopia will always be five years away.
Still I’m sure some investors are telling him to shut up and take their money, which is all that counts. 
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It also assumes that such a computer will understand everyone’s voice at all times, that you talking to your computer will not be disruptive (imagine working at an office where everyone is talking at their devices non-stop to get work done), and it also assumes that people even have the ability to talk.
I do think that having voice as an accessibility option is great but i doubt it’ll ever be the default.
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Star Trek showed us a world where Picard could ask the computer to make tea, but the engineers and doctors could still do things without everyone simultaneously having long conversations to try to get anything done. “Next screen, next screen, next screen, yeah, zoom into the quadrant kind of in the lower left there, no further left than that, ok but it’s moved now.” Why isn’t anyone inspired by Star Trek any more? All the ideas the tech bros have instead are so much worse.
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Remember when requests for feedback about products and services were collected on little cards next to a cash register? 
Also, shoppers could just pass them by while making a purchase. Good times…
Seth Meyers rants about requests for ratings and reviews making the customer experience much worse:
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The second one there is one of the only two notices that I insist atay beside our desk front desk in my library.
That and a football comic strip by David Squires with all the words from Dead Flag Blues by Godspeed you black emperor.
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Cause it’s woke?
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Coding in C++ will be a lot of fun via voice I’m sure…
Oh wait nobody is going to write code anymore, it’s all just vibes and I’ll have no more career.
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Still mostly works. For some reason I hit a wall with Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown…
Also there doesn’t seem to be a podcast for this:
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They are. They just get it all wrong. You know, just like with the Torment Nexus.
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I think part of the reason is that the easier targets have already been hit. Communicators? Hypospray? Universal translator? Sophisticated scanners? Androids (minus the sentience)? We have all of those things now, to varying degrees. We could even stretch it a bit and claim 3D printers are a very primitive precursor to replicators and tasers are able to stun people like a phaser.
So that leaves the really difficult stuff that they invented more for plot convenience rather than as a natural extension of where they saw real life technology headed- things like the transporters, force fields/shields and warp drive. Somebody is probably working on that stuff somewhere, but it’s a lot less accessible to anyone without advanced science degrees and success is likely to be the result of gradual discoveries over decades or even centuries, so the people working on it (and what they were inspired by) are practically invisible, as part of that long, grueling chain of progress (assuming those technologies don’t turn out to be literally impossible for some reason).
In other words, the only Star Trek-inspired invention we’re likely to see within our lifetimes that doesn’t already exist is the Agonizer. 
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We have hypospray? Why do people keep giving needles then?
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I’m not a medical professional, but from what I understand it’s mostly used for injecting large numbers of people quickly, when fiddling with and disposing of massive numbers of individual needles would be difficult. It’s also more like a paint gun than a compact handheld device.
ETA: More info here: Jet injector - Wikipedia
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Could be worse - how much fun will Perl be, I wonder?
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