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Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out'

posted by janrinok on Saturday October 08 2016, @02:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the orly? dept.

MrPlow writes:

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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: 2) by calzone on Saturday October 08 2016, @08:26PM

    by calzone (2181) on Saturday October 08 2016, @08:26PM (#411830) Journal

    I had a similar thought. We may be seeing the beginning of a new class-based society where content creators run the wold, are well off, literate and use keyboards and other "professional" tools while the consumer class spends all its money on content and service subscriptions (like self driving cars), doesn't read or write much, interacts with technology entire via voice, gesture, and advanced pattern recognition / ai, consumes everything as audio, video, or VR, can't spell, never uses keyboards, donesn't know much about using a map or geography… most everything is automated for them.

    To be a sustainable arrangement, such a society would need to ensure this underclass was happy enough to stay that way. There would be no poverty maybe, but there would be a major stratification between the "working class" and the "elites".

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  • (Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Monday October 10 2016, @03:38PM

    by JeanCroix (573) on Monday October 10 2016, @03:38PM (#412491)
    And thus, Morlocks and Eloi.