Google Docs Live: Voice-First AI Drafting Lands This Summer

This is the slow death of the blank cursor as a productivity primitive. Voice-to-draft compounds what Copilot and ChatGPT already did to first-draft economics — the cost of a serviceable memo is approaching zero. The interesting consequence isn't fewer writers; it's a glut of mid-quality documents and a premium on the rare humans who can edit, structure, and decide. Executives will quietly discover that "writes well" and "thinks well" were never the same skill, and the latter just got more valuable.