> I am not proposing that our interactions with agents will be via voice.

It sure sounds like the author is proposing exactly this:

> Desktops, mice, keyboards, and monitors will go away.

That's not going to happen anytime soon because voice is an absolutely terrible input method for a whole ton of common things people want to do.

> Personalized, context-aware personal assistants operating at a high level of abstraction

This is what I don't want, because in order for this to happen, the agent has to have access to extremely sensitive data about me. Given the history of our industry on this topic, there's no way I'd trust any software with that.