Gustin Johnson wrote:
I suspect that gestures and or touch will dominate and mice will be as quaint as a rotary telephone. There will likely always be some sort of pen for the artists, various musical interfaces that mimic actual instruments (these won't be needed but many like me will take a while to leave those particular interfaces behind), but for most the traditional UI will likely disappear, replaced by speech and gestures.
I'm not sure we'll see the keyboard/mouse disappear in our lifetime. They are currently the most efficient methods for interacting with computers (I'm thinking letter writing, code, drawing - I count pen devices under the mouse idea...).
I have hopes for speech. When we can carry on conversations with the computers THEN the interface may be suitable. As is common sentences like "Call um... Mike, er, Mike Smith" just don't work. It "HAS" to be "CALL" pause "MIKE" pause "SMITH". But, time will tell.
My thoughts. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
