Sounds like the somewhat affluent will have just enough time to become
dependent on this technology by the time climate change disrupts
civilization to such an extent that we no longer have resources to
maintain the technology.
Mai
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Mai Kuha
Department of English
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana, USA
On 4/25/17, 6:32 AM, "Dave Sayers" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I thought this might be of interest to linguists of varying
>subdisciplinary flavours,
>both for teaching and research, hence the egregious cross-spamming.
>
>I've just published a speculative article on the peer-reviewed website
>'Research
>Blogging', considering what the future of human-machine integration might
>mean for
>the field of translation, and consequently for the politics of minority
>languages.
>
>http://www.languageonthemove.com/will-technology-make-language-rights-obso
>lete/
>
>Amusingly, just this morning, progress was reported already on one of my
>predictions,
>namely machines accurately mimicking people's voices. This could all be
>old news
>pretty quickly!
>
>Enjoy - and of course, feel free to share far and wide!
>
>I've linked this on Twitter as well, which you're more than welcome to
>retweet :)
>https://twitter.com/DaveJSayers/status/856813246828994560
>
>Augmentedly yours,
>Dave
>
>--
>Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
>Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University |
>www.shu.ac.uk
>Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
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