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Voice Recognition Explosion Driving A Hands-Free Future For Search Queries
We're headed toward the future, hands-free, in a supersmart car. At least, those are two of the more provocative takeaways from Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers partner Mary Meeker's "Internet Trends 2016" report, which was released Wednesday at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Required reading for the technology, media and investment communities, Meeker's report touches on a number of topics in the digital media space, including the peculiarities of millennials, the rise of messaging applications and social media's embrace of photographs and video. But Meeker's reports are more interesting for what they forecast rather than for what they observe happening in the here and now, and two of the biggest predictions in the one this year are that the global smartphone explosion is beginning to moderate and that we are at the start of a torrid run of innovation around tech that we will be able to employ without using our hands. That run is beginning because internet users are starting to embrace the option of delivering commands to their phones orally, rather than via swipes and taps.