The search box.

Facebook revamps it's "graph search" feature to include searching posts, status updates, and almost everything you ever upload to Facebook. That's great for Facebook, but what does it mean for the user experience? Why do we want quick searches? The crushing amount of information on the web drives this necessity, but I believe there is something more going on. The search box is the paradigm of the simplest and most far reaching human interface we have created. Combo boxes, radio buttons, and other UI widgets have their place, but as we move forward towards better natural language processing and machine learning the computer to human to computer interface will have less clicking and more talking. The question is not "How do read my email?", the question is "How do I communicate with other humans using computers, and how will I talk with computers like human beings?"