infundibulum

If you haven’t checked out IT Conversations before, you’re missing out. Well, most of the time… there are a few clunkers, but overall I’d say it’s one of the better sources of (geeky) audio programming on the web right now.

I just found an interview from November of last year called “Simulation, Agents and Accelerating Change.” I haven’t listened to it yet but the following tidbit caught my eye:

One of the most important accelerating transitions occuring today is the emergence of the Linguistic User Interface or LUI. The LUI is the natural language front end to our increasingly malleable, intelligent, and humanizing Internet. Primitive LUIs exist today in interfaces like Google, but will become dramatically more powerful over the next few decades.

In my experience to date, most “LUI”s serve only to drive people nuts. But whatever, maybe they will get better.

UPDATE: It’s random marketing speak. Don’t bother.