In 2018, Google launched a new feature ‘Smart Compose’ which uses machine learning to make suggestions for completing your sentences when drafting an email.
LinkedIn introduced a feature ‘smart replies’ (so did Google) in 2017, which provides reply recommendations for your conversations.
The technology companies attribute ‘saving time’ as the sole reason behind the introduction of such features.
The limitation in composing messages is not a physical one. It’s not as if the keyboard is not being able to keep up with our thought process.
What the companies are saying here is, “You can’t think of the right words fast enough. So we are going to put them in your mouth for you.”
Technology is great for enhancing efficiency but communication requires a lot more than that. It requires you to be humane, understand the other person and express yourself truly.