It's an interesting thought experiment, and I think ultimately the legacy of this film will be mainly the same as Minority Report - it'll inspire an entire gene

It's an interesting thought experiment, and I think ultimately the legacy of this film will be mainly the same as Minority Report - it'll inspire an entire generation of voice tech that's far, far superior to what we've got today. Minority Report sort of blew the lid off of touch and gesture controls and made a lot of tech demos into viable commercial products. It took vague excitement around gesture and touch and turned it into a concrete, specific vision. Her demonstrates voice tech in our lives in a way that isn't horrifyingly stilted, awkward, intrusive, and dumb. Everything we've got - including Siri - is child's play in comparison. We've been saying that voice technology needs to be smarter and better, but this is a concrete vision of just how it can do that.