Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years?

Re:Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years? by jokermatt999 on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:48PM (#2077382)

Kids might only use the internet for FaceTwitterTube, but I'll bet they'll still probably have to type essays and reports.

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Re:Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years? by bryanlarsen on Thursday January 06, 2011 @05:00PM (#2077443)

And kids will be the first to abandon keyboards if there are viable alternatives. There's a learning curve to QWERTY, too. There are people that are faster using T9 than using a keyboard, just due to the practice effect. And remember, 500 words is a common essay length in school. That isn't short form text, but it's not particularly long form, either.

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Re:Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years? by wladimir on Friday January 07, 2011 @05:29AM (#2079181)

There are people that are faster using T9 than using a keyboard. But I'm pretty sure that the world's fastest keyboard typist is much faster than the world's fastest T9 typer. (because you can 'pre-plan' more keys with a keyboard, using 10 fingers) (I haven't done research on this though, so feel free to prove me wrong)

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