Shanken pg 256-290

On page 256, Shanken discusses artist Myron.W. Krueger and it's interesting to read what he has to say about man-machine interaction. Krueger does say something that got me thinking when he says, "Man -machine interaction is usually limited to a seated man poking at a machine with his fingers or perhaps waving a wand over a data tablet. Seven years ago, I was dissatisfied with a such a restricted dialogue and embarked on research exploring more interesting ways for men and machines to relate (256)." With the release of Windows 10, Microsoft introduced there new speech recognition interface called "Cortana", which allows a person to say what they want to search for instead of typing it using a keyboard/phone. The way that everyone interacts with machines is starting to change. For example, even Apple has there own version of Cortana called "Siri," which has also been quite popular among IPhone users for quite some time. This new type of interaction allows a person to feel like they are talking to someone who responds and assists them in a vocal/audible way.The machine may only do what it's being told, but a person is interacting with a machine, and this type of technology is bound to get better and better as the years go by. I personally still haven't caught on to this interaction using Cortana or Siri, but who knows, someday I will.