Ray Ozzie: The Phone Call Is Dead, Long Live Talking

Ray Ozzie wants to get people talking again. But not with traditional phone calls, which he believes are fundamentally broken

Instead, Microsoft's former chief architect has imagined a new way to communicate — one that is centered around voice but also uses photos, video and text. It's called Talko.

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"I passionately believe that there’s immense latent potential in voice — to convey tone and emotion, to quickly resolve issues, to make decisions and to get things done," Ozzie wrote in a blog post on Medium . "There’s simply no faster and no more effective way to express essential emotions such as urgency, anxiety, understanding, confidence or trust. Quite simply, amazing things can happen when we just choose to talk." Read more...

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