Personally, I do not consider writing to be: "the closest we have come (so far!) to perfecting the human interface." In fact, I tend to do it only when there a

Personally, I do not consider writing to be: "the closest we have come (so far!) to perfecting the human interface." In fact, I tend to do it only when there are no other practical options. I can type far faster than I can write, find it far more natural, and it has numerous advantages. For instance, I can share it more broadly, reproduce it more easily, archive more effectively, search through it more easily, and worry about losing it less (largely because of that archiving and searching). Even in his particular example, it seems that if he had spent less time trying to decide which of his bells and whistles to use and just picked and used any of them he would have had no problem. (In his situation, I would have left myself a voice note on the phone. If you are used to it, you can do it while walking with very little slowdown.)