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Re:CES2011: The end of the PC era by ronnoch on Thursday January 06, 2011 @02:44PM (#2076835)
We'll probably still be using some sort of device that involves tapping keys with our fingers. But I'd be very surprised if that device is anything like current keyboards.

(And then there's the small chance that brain-computer interfaces will allow us to type with our minds, but I'm not betting on that.)

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Re:CES2011: The end of the PC era by roadnottaken on Thursday January 06, 2011 @02:58PM (#2076889)
Worth considering that QWERTY keyboards have been the method-of-choice for text-entry for over 100 years. I'm not saying it will last forever, necessarily, but it's a very efficient technique. Call me old-fashioned, but I don't see it being supplanted by voice-transcription or gestures or whatever for a very long time.
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Re:CES2011: The end of the PC era by ronnoch on Thursday January 06, 2011 @05:10PM (#2077497)
Agreed. I'm predicting more along the lines of really good on-screen keyboards, or ThinkGeek's laser keyboard (http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/8193/), or something entirely new but still in that vein. In other words, keeping what works but evolving past the big physical slab of plastic.

> Call me old-fashioned, but I don't see it being supplanted by voice-transcription or gestures or whatever for a very long time.

Well, we can type way faster than we can talk, so even if voice transcription were perfected, it would still be impractical.

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