Mary Meeker: voice-controlled tech set for exponential rise in next few years

The investor has released her annual batch of analysis and predictions, and says 'always listening' devices like Amazon's Echo are set to boom

In the future, you probably won't use your keyboard to get to this website.

So predicts of one of the internet's top oracles, Mary Meeker, a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. On Wednesday Meeker, a long-time investor and financial analyst, unveiled her annual predictions of the technology industry's future at a conference in southern California. The two big takeaways: people will do more talking to their computers and less typing on them. Oh - and the technology sector's days of easy, red-hot growth may be behind it because an increasing percentage of the Earth's population already owns a smartphone.