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posted by janrinok on Saturday October 08 2016, @02:35PM   Printer-friendly
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Microsoft's man in charge of predicting the future has forecast the slow death of the Qwerty keyboard — with facial tracking, voice and gesture recognition taking over. Dave Coplin, the technology giant's chief envisioning officer, said it was bizarre that 21st-century workers still relied on typing technology invented in the 19th century.  He added that while there have been huge leaps in technology, often the workplace had not caught up.

"We have these amazing computers that we essentially use like we're still Victorians. The Qwerty keyboard is a great example of an old design being brought forward to modern day. We've not really evolved. We still use this sub-optimal design.

"We're looking at technologies now like voice and gesture recognition, and facial tracking that may make the keyboard redundant," he added.

"We think that computers in the not-too-distant future will be able to understand all of those things and infer on my behalf my intent, meaning and objective that I'm trying to do."

Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/techandgadgets/microsoft-expert-who-predicts-future-technology-says-qwerty-keyboard-will-die-out-a3355726.html


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by number6 on Saturday October 08 2016, @04:20PM

    by number6 (1831) on Saturday October 08 2016, @04:20PM (#411774) Journal

    I have a text file (file.txt) containing this one long string:

    <embed>||$directory_path(%path%)\folder*||$directory_path(%path%)\%filename%*||$directory_path(%path%)\01*||$directory_path(%path%)\02*||$directory_path(%path%)\03*||$left($directory_path(%path%),$sub($len($directory_path(%path%)),$add($len($directory(%path%,1)),1)))\folder*||$left($directory_path(%path%),$sub($len($directory_path(%path%)),$add($len($directory(%path%,1)),1)))\%filename%*||$left($directory_path(%path%),$sub($len($directory_path(%path%)),$add($len($directory(%path%,1)),1)))\01*||$left($directory_path(%path%),$sub($len($directory_path(%path%)),$add($len($directory(%path%,1)),1)))\02*||$left($directory_path(%path%),$sub($len($directory_path(%path%)),$add($len($directory(%path%,1)),1)))\03*||

    I want to split the string to separate lines at a delimiter ('||')

    I open a [Windows] Command Prompt window and type (I have GNU SED placed in the system path):

    sed.exe "s/||/\x0A/g" file.txt

    and I instantly get this output result:

    <embed>
    $directory_path(%path%)\folder*
    $directory_path(%path%)\%filename%*
    $directory_path(%path%)\01*
    $directory_path(%path%)\02*
    $directory_path(%path%)\03*
    $left($directory_path(%path%),$sub($len($directory_path(%path%)),$add($len($directory(%path%,1)),1)))\folder*
    $left($directory_path(%path%),$sub($len($directory_path(%path%)),$add($len($directory(%path%,1)),1)))\%filename%*
    $left($directory_path(%path%),$sub($len($directory_path(%path%)),$add($len($directory(%path%,1)),1)))\01*
    $left($directory_path(%path%),$sub($len($directory_path(%path%)),$add($len($directory(%path%,1)),1)))\02*
    $left($directory_path(%path%),$sub($len($directory_path(%path%)),$add($len($directory(%path%,1)),1)))\03*

    The above text processing is fast, efficient, accurate and useful (...and thank God for SED; Windows CMD and its built-in tools are an unreliable fucking joke when working with long strings).

    I would like a detailed description of Dave Coplin's technology replacing what I just did.

    I want to visualize the process of using this new HID technology.

    Has anybody here got a vivid sci-fi imagination?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 08 2016, @04:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 08 2016, @04:43PM (#411786)

    You: Computer, run sed.exe
    Computer: running "sex ed"
    You: Ugh. Fuck my life
    Computer: running "sex with ed"
    You: Hey, look, my computer just failed a gravity test

  • (Score: 1) by hey_popey on Sunday October 09 2016, @08:41AM

    by hey_popey (3842) on Sunday October 09 2016, @08:41AM (#411993)

    So far, every comment I've read has been missing the "face tracking" part.
    If I understand correctly, Dave Coplin would simply have you type your sed line, by tracking your eyes looking at some kind of keyboard - virtual or not.
    Back in 2003 I tested myself a prototype on a science fair. The thing could identify several zones (~5) on a normal sized screen and react differently depending on which one I was looking at. Granted, the mouse pointer tracking my line of sight was not very stable (maybe that's inherent to how our eyes work), but I'm sure that it can be (and might have already been) improved upon in the 13 years since, even if only in research labs.