“Ideally, you would want to interact with your car through voice." Perhaps this is true for things like turning the air conditioning up and down on boring driv

“Ideally, you would want to interact with your car through voice." Perhaps this is true for things like turning the air conditioning up and down on boring drives where you fantasize about being Jean-Luc Picard*. I am much less convinced of this for anything where reaction time matters. Every electronic musician I know prefers hardware control surfaces to virtualized ones. Draw your own conclusions. * I think one of the major things Star Trek gets wrong is the representation of HCI. It looks good on screen and makes storytelling easier but creates other problems. Indeed, there are episodes where the computer goes down and highly skilled starship crew are faced with blank screens and must resort o crawling around in utility ducts and hitting things with electronic spanners.