It will probably be a ipod based speech recognition program that instead of just converting speech to printed words will convert it to another language and then output it to sound. I would think it would only take about ten more years of refining to get something that will be as good as an unprofessional human translator. The world will then be like it was before the languages were confused at Babylon.
Big Brother is watching us all: “The US and UK governments are developing increasingly sophisticated gadgets to keep individuals under their surveillance. When it comes to technology, the US is determined to stay ahead of the game.”
“All right then, can you say what you’re actually working on now.” “Oh, language,” he answered enthusiastically, clasping his fingers together. “Unless we’re going to train every American citizen and soldier in 16 different languages we have to develop a technology that allows them to understand – whatever country they are in – what’s going on around them. “I hope in the future we’ll be able to have conversations, if say you’re speaking in French and I’m speaking in English, and it will be natural.” “And the computer will do the translation?” “Yep. All by computer,” he said.
