Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years?

Re:Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years? by rimantas on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:20PM (#2077234)

I don't get this "voice recognition" thing, at least I fail to see how it is superior to keyboard. It may have it's uses when your hands are already busy, but otherwise. Starbucks full of people talking to their computers? Cubicles full of people talking 8 hours a day?

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Re:Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years? by showerst on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:53PM (#2077411)

In fairness, it's not all that uncommon for Starbucks to be full of people talking into thin air to no one (blue tooth cell phone headsets).

The (theoretical) advantage of voice recognition is that you can speak _much_ faster than you can type (except for a few exceptional cases) [1].

On the other hand, I don't think most people would be comfortable with speaking all day either, but things other than voice recognition could still replace the keyboard.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Words_per_min...

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Re:Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years? by wladimir on Friday January 07, 2011 @05:43AM (#2079207)

But isn't the speed advantage gone very soon as soon as you have to type non-english text such as programming languages and specific commands (which are a large part of using a computer, you don't only want to type the text, you also want to format it and move it around).

Try listening to http://www.linux.fm/ for more than three minutes and you'll get my point :)

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