# Quoting Tomasz Tunguz - The Text Box Isn't Enough

https://tomtunguz.com/if-dos-spoke-english/

> Most strikingly, we’re back to single-threaded computing : one conversation, one task, one at a time.
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> Also, sometimes we prefer to see things [...]
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> Standard UIs persist for good reasons. They enable the training of thousands of people & manage parallel tasks. They guide users toward the next action, bridging the divide between the prompt-fluent & everyone else. They manage costs by balancing deterministic & non-deterministic processes. AI & standard code both have a role to play.
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> So would Apple have succeeded if DOS had spoken English? Yes. The need for user interfaces on top of powerful platforms doesn’t disappear when the underlying system gets smarter; it intensifies.

I wholly agree.

> The text box is powerful. The desktop built on top of it will be more powerful still.

I've said for a long time that text based chat is a poor user interface for most tasks. There's a reason people use slides in lectures and whiteboards in meetings. Because just speaking or typing alone is often a rubbish mechanism for conveying information.