How will work settings change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal examines the growing popularity of dictation apps like Wispr, especially now that they can be connected to mood coding tools, and what this could mean for office etiquette.
One VC said visiting startup offices now feels like walking into a high-end call center. And Edward Kim, co-founder of Gusto He apparently tells his team that in the future, offices will look “more like a sales floor.” (As someone still scarred by the time his office was briefly moved to a sales floor, let me say: Oh no.)
Kim claimed he now only taps when he absolutely has to. But he admitted that constantly dictating in the office can be “just a little bit annoying”.
Similarly, AI entrepreneur Mollie Amkraut Mueller said her husband has become annoyed by her new habit of whispering to his computer, so their late-night work sessions now involve sitting apart, or “one of us will stay in our office.”
But Wispr founder Tanay Kothari insisted it will all seem “normal” one day, just as it has become normal to spend hours staring at your phone.
