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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."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 08 2016, @04:35PM
Then how did they work with Data? But in all seriousness, what they did isn't too hard if it is context-based. For example, the one to adjust the shields would be the engineer or tactical station, which probably already have buttons for the shield. It is like placing a call to someone. How can you do that without hitting half a million buttons? click one button to go home, one for phone, one for contacts and one to select the person. Yes, its true that context-based GUIs mean it takes longer for some tasks but other are just a few or even one interaction.