Sunday, April 11, 2010

Will keyboards become obsolete?

Here's an article about the I-pad, and how kids just being born now may only know touch technology and never type on a keyboard, just on a screen.

I wonder if typing all together will become obsolete and we'll end up orally dictating everything into computers with voice-recognition technology. I think that would take some getting used to, but I can just see my kids being shocked that I had to physically TYPE all my papers as a student, just as I am shocked that my mom had to use a typewriter, couldn't go back and insert or delete things, and had to use whiteout if she made even 1 typo.