It's hard to imagine that. The entire internet was built using the keyboard; the world's modern knowledge is being constructed using the keyboard; even some industries can't function without a keyboard.
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I hear ya. You know this is precisely what was said about punch cards, magnetic tapes and floppy disks. It was also said about library catalogs and book shelves. Each paradigm shift is perhaps unfathomable, until it shifts. One only need to watch the youngest generation to know.
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Structured/Unstructured is involved as http://well.In search not needing to structure the data led to major advances. On input unstructured (voice) is lot less effort than structured (key strokes). On output same holds with exceptions. We read faster than listening.
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1.Contra factual:Has audio rec & archiving existed for the early humans,would they have resorted to this high entropy structured method called ‘writing‘? 2.if so, is text a relic of such a past? 3.Speech Understanding can be done w/o conversion to text.Keep it all unstructured
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Since not all communication is voice driven, what's the non-keyboard alternative? Mind controlled devices that translate brain waves into actions?
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By 2040 it will be seen that the microphone and the speaker was more important then the keyboard and screen to the advancement of how humans interact with computers. The keyboard and screen won’t go away—they will just become another vestige of the mechanical age.