[divbit]

One wonders what kind of future technological breakthrough it would take to make the traditional characters easier to enter in a computer system ( rather than going through pinyin first )- I've seen that handwriting in simplified characters is probably on par, in terms of speed and readability, with pinyin, so it doesn't seem that far fetched, given that many phones and computer can accept stylus input these days.

[gurkendoktor]

Smartphones have pretty good handwriting IMEs, but if you want to bypass Pinyin, Cangjie is also an interesting system - you can (could) even create new characters with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method#Early_Can...