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# The Prompt Is Still a Punch Card - Ted Johnson, JoinIn AI

Interfaces outlive their constraints. The keyboard, command line, mouse, menus, forms, voice assistants, and even prompts were all brilliant compromises with the machines of their time. But AI gives us a chance to renegotiate that bargain. This talk reframes AI as an interface technology, not only an intelligence technology. We will trace a pattern across computing history: humans repeatedly learn the machine’s protocol, from punching cards to writing commands to engineering prompts. Then we will ask what changes when computers can reason, listen, speak, infer, clarify, and adapt. The next frontier is not just better models or better voices. It is more human-compatible interfaces: systems that understand timing, attention, interruption, ambiguity, repair, shared context, and when to stay silent. Speakers: - Ted Johnson (JoinIn AI): Ted Johnson is an executive, enterprise architect, and co-founder of JoinIn.AI, focused on AI-powered collaboration, enterprise architecture, cloud strategy, and technology transformation. LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/johnsontedm GitHub: https://github.com/JoinIn-AI/

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