Ahead of his conversation on stage at Apps World with Wired.co.uk's editor Nate Lanxon, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak spoke to us about his view on new iPhones, wearable technologies, the future of apps, and Google Glass.

“These young people with new ideas starting out—sometimes for the first time—are my favorite people in the world,” Steve Wozniak tells Wired.co.uk. “It reminds me of when we started Apple.”

Since doing so in the 1970s with Steve Jobs, Wozniak has turned much of his attention, time, and money to education and new businesses. Presently serving as chief scientist at flash storage company Fusion-io, he also readily invests in new technologies and applications. “The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn’t thought of before, and that aren’t talked about in the news all the time,” says Wozniak.

High on the list of ideal candidates are apps that take a smarter approach to the use of human speech, ones “where you talk to it like a normal person, the way you would talk to a human being.”

“I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar,” he continues. “When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know ‘no, he couldn’t have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.’ That’s going to take a lot of software, a lot of artificial intelligence work over the next five to 10 years.”

Another technology being predicted to develop over that period is the smart watch. One research group has suggested shipments of smart watches in 2014 could hit 8.9 million globally, hitting 214 million units by 2018. But Wozniak has already identified that the current models are too restrictive.

“I want the entire smartphone, the entire Internet, on my wrist,” he says. “I want a larger display than they’re starting with. They’re starting with […] displays that are the size of the iPod nano, which is the size of an ordinary watch of the past. I think we’ve got to get a little beyond this watch of the past.