Happy Twin Peaks day to those who celebrate!

In Agent Cooper’s first appearance in the show, he’s driving a car, right hand on the steering wheel, left hand holding a small black box (a microcassette recorder), that, if you don’t look too closely, could easily be mistaken for a regular sized black iPhone with a flush battery pack attached to its back.

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He's keeping his eyes on the road, and dictating audio.

“Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”

In 1989 he’s dictating a log entry to his presumably human assistant, Diane, for her to transcribe after the fact.

In 2026 (notwithstanding safety and legal concerns while driving) it’s not a stretch to say he could (would likely) be dictating to his (perhaps renamed) digital assistant, Diane, or at least a speech-to-text feature in a note-taking application that would automatically transcribe his words in real time.

Those transcribed words could even be saved as a private post or draft, either locally on his device, or to his personal website, for him to review and clean-up if necessary before publishing to and notifying perhaps a limited audience.

Imagine capturing your thoughts without having to look at a screen. No scrolling to first see what others have said. No attention-distracting alerts or admintax prompts to update an application. Capture your thoughts as they occur, and continue onward, focused on your current task or project, uninterrupted.

Today’s technologies and standards should enable such an interaction, all the way through to storing your dictations in a location of your choice. I wonder if anyone has built this.

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