As a late member of the Baby Boom generation, I’m amazed at the speed that my teenage kids can text.

My guess is that, soon, my children will be similarly amazed at the rapidity that the kids of the future will be able to “sign”–or gesture with their hands.

This article and the video below outline Google’s new Project Soli. Take a gander and then begin imaging how the future might change if this technology scales.

My prediction is that we will soon be interacting with the physical world in a profoundly different way.

And, if the past is any indication of the future, some of us will be doing so at speeds signifcantly slower than others.