Human-Computer Interaction: Where Do We Go From Here?

"There's a lot of research in the direction of enabling human thoughts to be able to control computing devices and physical objects too. I always have a lot of writing to do. When I lay down to go to sleep, paragraphs just come to me. Wouldn't you like a device that would capture that flow of thoughts and store it somewhere -- put it on a screen, put it in Word?" -- Dan Olds, analyst at management consulting company OrionX. The meteoric rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) carries the potential for a future that includes perceptual computing.