Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years?

Re:Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years? by bryanlarsen on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:15PM (#2077209)

Your wording has made the poll meaningless, unfortunately. Of course keyboards will still be around in 20 years -- in museums if nothing else. Under the fold you use the word "ubiquitous". Keyboards aren't even ubiquitous now -- there are large parts of the world where computers (thus traditional keyboards) aren't common.

Here's a couple of more tightly worded questions for suggestions:

- will a traditional qwerty keyboard be present in the majority of American homes?

- will a qwerty keyboard sit on the desk on most office workers not doing IT duties?

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Re:Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years? by dasil003 on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:23PM (#2077252)

In 20 years the United States could be well on its way to becoming a third world backwater.

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Re:Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years? by bryanlarsen on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:36PM (#2077321)

Doesn't affect the question much, though. Even today, most third world backwaters have ubiquitous mobile phones. In 20 years, material goods will be common in third world backwaters. Healthy food, quality education and good healthcare probably won't be. Of course, by those measures, America is already halfway there, according to pundits...

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