Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years?

Re:Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years? by showerst on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:04PM (#2077166)

I think it depends a bit on what you mean by 'ubiquitous'.

Eventually voice will probably supplant the keyboard for many written communications, and gestures for navigation (which is more about replacing the mouse anyway), but voice is actually not that great for expressing certain types of content.

Programming code comes to mind immediately. I'd much rather type

IF (($i === 'foo') && ($z === ($t + 2)))

than try to speak it with parenthesis (assuming we still program that way in 20 years).

On the other hand, maybe one of these brainwave readers will have a breakthrough and I'll just be able to think it =).

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Re:Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years? by doyoulikeworms on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:19PM (#2077227)

Voicing code may be a more pleasant than at first glance. You could describe the if statement in your comment to somebody sitting next to you, and he'd understand it (with a little work).

A future voice-IDE might be even better at it, since it has total contextual knowledge (your source). Assuming, of course, that the traditional hurdles of voice-recognition are dealt with properly.

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