This week saw the publication of Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report , packed full of data and insights into the development of the internet and digital technology across the globe. Particularly of interest to us here at Search Engine Watch is a 21-page section on the evolution of voice and natural language as a computing interface, titled ‘ Re-Imagining Voice = A New Paradigm in Human-Computer Interaction ’. It looks at trends in recognition accuracy, voice assistants, voice search and sales of devices like the Amazon Echo to build up an accurate picture of how voice interface has progressed over the past few years, and is likely to progress in the future
“Hi, nice to meet you, my name is ZettaByte!” If you are from the generation familiar with the terms MegaByte, GigaByte, and TerraByte, prepare yourselves for a whole new vocabulary, the likes of which your predecessors probably could not imagine. Soon terms like PetaByte, ExaByte, and ZettaByte will be as common as the aforementioned, with benefits and The post Big Data: A Blessing and A Curse appeared first on Search Engine Journal .