>>> The trend in technology is rapidly shifting toward speech recognition, and natural language
processing and to make keyboards, and mouse obsolete.
I think this overestimates the case for natural language processing, for several reasons. In many uses of computers, people are not going to want to talk to their computers to get work done. It will not work in a cubicle-based work environment. Everyone would be talking and it would be hard to get any work done. Also, there are several parts of user interfaces that still require some precise pointing capability, whether it be a mouse-like device, a touch-sensitive screen, gloves and other VR-type input, etc. This is particularly true of certain applications such as paint, draw, CAD/CAM applications. I do not think that mouse-type devices will ever become obsolete, and keyboards will always be around, although to a lesser extent. |
