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.
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12 years ago
Interesting... the voice rec system would also have to be programmed to recognize accents ;)
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to imagine...I know my grandfather tried one of the voice recognition programs (probably about 10 years ago), because he never learned how to type. I think he found the "training" of the program so frustrating that he never really used it (he continued dictating to grandma instead! :-). But, I imagine the technology will keep developing, so maybe it will get good enough to be a possible replacement for typing.
ReplyDeleteinteresting--I almost wonder if eventually there'll be some brainwave-technology interface, embedded chips or something of that nature--I don't think text will ever be obsolete, since many people can process the written word faster than the spoken word
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